General Characteristics

County (administration): Ústí nad Labem Region
District (town): Most
Cadastre: Korozluky
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0234, 02341
Geological region: Neovolcanics of the České středohoří Mts.
Technical object: guarry
ID : 2484

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: An abandoned quarry 50 m long, partly destructed by a landfill, on the S edge of Korozluky, Teplice area. A classical site of Lower Miocene freshwater limestone in the Most Basin, overlying a succession of basaltic pyroclastics. The limestones are now exposed in a thickness of 1-1.5 m. Fossil gastropods were described in detail by B. Klika in 1892. Another body of freshwater limestone lies SE of Korozluky.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Tertiary - Basins under Krušné hory Mts.and adjoining volcanic uplands, Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Tertiary - Freshwater Tertiary relics
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - terciér (paleogén - neogén)
Subject: economic geology, paleontology, stratigraphy
Geological phenomenon: fossils fauna
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: limestone

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: waste disposal

References

Kopecký L. a kolektiv autorů, 1990: Vysvětlivky k základní goelogické mapě ČSSR v měřítku 1 : 25 000 list 02341 Bílina.- Ústřední ústav geologický Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Godány Josef, 31.12.96

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2484 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-18]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2484.

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