General Characteristics

County (administration): Karlovy Vary Region
District (town): Sokolov
Cadastre: Přebuz, Rolava
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0134,1112, 01344,11122
Geological region: Krušné hory Mts. crystalline complex; Karlovy Vary Massif (SW part)
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 2375

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: A high-moor peat bog 1.5 km NW of Přebuz, near Stříbrná. The pat-bog is partly exploited, providing good vertical sections reaching from peat to the underlying kaolin layer and to granites of the Younger Intrusive Complex of the Karlovy Vary pluton. Depressions in the peat bog are remains after tin mining in the Kronesberg district. A nature reserve.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Quaternary
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - kvartér
Subject: geology, stratigraphy, botany, zoology
Geological phenomenon: peat bog, characteristic rock
Genesis: organogenic (activity of organisms)
Rock: peat

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature monument
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 (geology is important aspect of Biological declared Locality )
Part of the Geopark: Egeria
Conflicts of interests: tourism, open cast mining

References

Škvor, V. (1975): Geologie české části Krušných hor a Smrčin. - Knihovna ÚÚG, sv. 48, Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Rojík Petr, 17.03.06
Updated by: Rojík Petr 15.03.06, Mlčoch Bedřich 08.10.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2375 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-19]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2375.

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