General Characteristics

County (administration): Plzeň Region
District (town): Tachov
Cadastre: Stříbro
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1144, 11443
Geological region: Barrandian Proterozoic; Tisá and Čistá-Jesenice massifs
Technical object: gallery
ID : 2488

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Barrandian, Neoproterozoic and Late Palaeozoic.Gallery adit at the Mže River. Ore bearing veins cut through Neoproterozoic spilites and phyllites. Neoproterozoic rocks are also cut by paleorhyolite, paleodacite and paleoandesite veins. Nearby Permocarboniferous sediments of the Vranov Basin occur, preserved only as small relics. Quaternary cover consists oif eluvial and colluvial clayey and sandy deposits.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien, Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Central and Western Bohemian Late Palaeozoicum
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum, paleozoikum
Subject: economic geology, mineralogy, mining and mining impacts
Geological phenomenon: vein, mineral
Genesis: hydrothermal mineralization
Rock: spilite, phyllite

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: without conflicts

References

Čepek L.,1934: Příspěvek k tektonice algonikia jižně od Stříbra.- Věstník Státního geologického ústavu ČSR, 10, s.334, Praha.; Čepek L., r.?:Geologické okolí Kladrub a Stříbra. Věstník Státního geologického ústavu ČSR, 12, 183 - 201.; Šimeček Z., 1967: K dolování ve Stříbře v období předhusitském. Minulostí Západočeského kraje, 5, s. 198.; Zlický F.J., 1876: Olověné doly ve Stříbře. - Vesmír, 5, 1876, s. 15.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Vrána P., 29.10.93
Updated by: Kukal Zdeněk 27.12.12, Kukal Zdeněk 27.12.12

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2488 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-19]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2488.

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