General Characteristics

County (administration): Karlovy Vary Region
District (town): Cheb
Cadastre: Ovesné Kladruby
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1141, 11411
Geological region: Teplá, Tachov, Smrčiny, Svatava, Cheb-Dyleň a Slavkov crystalline complexes, Thüringen - Vogtland Palaeozoic; Karlovy Vary Massif (SE part)
Accessibility: - passable footpath
ID : 2365

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: The Teplá Crystalline and surrounding metamorphic rocks. Relics of Tertiary basalt volcano, landmark, highest peak of the Teplá Highland. Fissure volcano on a crossing of two fractures. This basaltoid volcanite is represented mainly by an olivine nephelinite. Surrounding metamorphic rocks consist of amphibolites.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Tertiary - Dispersed Alcalic volcanits
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - terciér (paleogén - neogén)
Subject: geomorphology, mineralogy, volcanology
Geological phenomenon: lava, outcrop, dyke, intrusion
Genesis: volcanic
Rock: basaltoid (basaltic-rock), foidite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature reserve in Protected landscape area
Additional information: See the Digital register of the Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic AOPK ČR
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: A - Protected Area (declared as Geological and Biological Locality)
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Slavkovský les
Part of the Geopark: Egeria
Conflicts of interests: tourism

References

Cajz V. (1992): Vulkanologie Podhorního vrchu (západní Čechy), Časopis pro mineralogii a geologii, roč. 37, č. 1, 63-64; Zahradnický J., Mackovčin P. a kol.(2005): Plzeňsko a Karlovarsko. In: Mackovčin P. a Sedláček M.(eds.): Chráněná území ČR, svazek XI. Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR a EkoCentrum Brno, str.532 Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Jirková Pavlína, 05.06.09
Updated by: Rapprich Vladislav 11.11.09, Gürtlerová Pavla 27.07.10

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2365 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-26]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2365.

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