General Characteristics

County (administration): Karlovy Vary Region
District (town): Sokolov
Cadastre: Jindřichovice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1112, 11122
Geological region: Krušné hory Mts. crystalline complex; Karlovy Vary Massif (SW part)
Technical object: guarry
ID : 2532

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: An abandoned, flooded quarry 2 km NW of Jindřichovice. It was opened in 1906 in a body of columnar-jointed nepheline basanite of Tertiary age, and closed in 1995. Pyroclastics with granite xenoliths are also exposed. Host granites of the Karlovy Vary pluton are well exposed, showing signs of alteration due to intrusion-related high pressures and temperatures. Relics of Tertiary kaolin and silcrete are located around the quarry. The quarry is of historical significance (a POW camp from WW I).
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: petrology, zoology, botany, volcanology, mining and mining impacts, geology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock
Genesis: magmatic, volcanic , anthropogenic (anthropogenic activity)
Rock: basanite, granite

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
Part of the Geopark: Egeria
Conflicts of interests: private property, waste disposal

References

Rojík, P. (2000): Geologické a geomorfologické posouzení lokalit Komáří vrch a Rotava lom. - Okresní úřad Sokolov.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Rojík Petr, 17.03.06
Updated by: Kukal Zdeněk 04.12.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2532 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2532.

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