General Characteristics

County (administration): Ústí nad Labem Region
District (town): Teplice
Cadastre: Měrunice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0234, 02341
Geological region: Neovolcanics of the České středohoří Mts.
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: old mine workings, waste dump
ID : 2319

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Old minings and a spoil tip at Granátový vrch Hill SW of Měrunice, Teplice area. The hiss is formed by pyrope-bearing basaltic diatreme. Pyrope was extracted in the 20th century in shafts reaching a depth of ca. 60 m. Outcrops also display sedimentary fill of the former maar depression. Xenoliths of garnet peridotite, taken to the surface by the basaltic eruption, can be found.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Tertiary - Basins under Krušné hory Mts.and adjoining volcanic uplands
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - terciér (paleogén - neogén)
Subject: volcanology, mining and mining impacts, economic geology, mineralogy, geomorphology
Geological phenomenon: maar, mineral
Genesis: volcanic
Rock: basalt

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Interesting geological localities in Protected landscape area
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: C - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a registration in the database of CGS
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - České středohoří
Conflicts of interests: vegetation

References

Kopecký L. a kolektiv autorů, 1990: Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČR v měřítku 1 : 25 000 list 02341 Bílina.- Ústřední ústav geologický Praha, Mlčoch Bedřich a kolektiv autorů, 1994: Geologicky významné lokality v severočeské pánvi a jejím okolí, chráněné nebo navrhované k ochraně.- Český geologický ústav Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Mlčoch Bedřich, 31.12.94
Updated by: Plíšek Antonín 12.04.05, Vajskebrová Markéta 27.09.21

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2319 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-25]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2319.

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