General Characteristics
County (administration): Ústí nad Labem Region
District (town): Děčín
Cadastre: Varnsdorf
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0222, 02224
Geological region: Lužice Pluton and Krkonoše-Jizera Massif; Krkonoše-Jizera crystalline complex
Accessibility: - special entry permit necessary (military area, quarry, private land)
Technical object: waste dump, gallery
ID : 1979
Geology
Short characteristics of the site: Krkonoše-Jizera crystalline. Lusatian Massif and Krkonoše-Jizera Massif. Small dump near adit collar. The sequence of tuffites, sands and clays with some coal seams, mined during the 19th century. Tertiary sediments yielded interesting fossil flora. These Tertiary sediments are overlain by Tertiary basalt lava flows.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Tertiary - Žitava Basin
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - karbon
Subject: sedimentology, petrology, stratigraphy, paleontology, mining and mining impacts
Geological phenomenon: fossils-flora
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: tuffite, coal
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: others human activity
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 02.10.18 Citation
The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1979 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-03-28]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1979. Location in map:
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