General Characteristics

County (administration): Ústí nad Labem Region
District (town): Děčín
Cadastre: Rumburk
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0222, 02224
Geological region: Lužice Pluton and Krkonoše-Jizera Massif; Krkonoše-Jizera crystalline complex
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: old mine workings
ID : 1976

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Krkonoše-Jizera crystalline. Outcrops of vein quartz of the Rumburk quartz dyke. It is 100 m broad and continuos across state borders into Germany. Quartz was quarried on several places. The rock suffered several stages of mylonitization and silicification.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Lugicum - Magmatites of Lugicum
Stratigraphy: kadomské stáří vyvřelin
Subject: economic geology, mining and mining impacts, petrology, mineralogy
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock
Genesis: magmatic
Rock: quartz vein

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: C - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a registration in the database of CGS
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Opletal M. a kolektiv autorů, 2001: Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČR v měřítku 1 : 25 000 list 02222 Jiříkov a list 02224 + 03113 Varnsdorf. Český geologický ústav Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Opletal Mojmír, Fediuk Ferry,Nývlt D., 31.12.01
Updated by: Vajskebrová Markéta 25.09.18

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1976 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1976.

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