General Characteristics

County (administration): Plzeň Region
District (town): Plzeň-sever
Cadastre: Úněšov
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1142, 11424
Geological region: Permo-Carboniferous and Tertiary of the Central Bohemian & Western Bohemian limnic regions
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 2672

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Section through the volcanic pipe of bazaltic efusion, brecciated at the margins with xenolites and fragments of juvenile bazalts.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Tertiary - Dispersed Alcalic volcanits
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - terciér (paleogén - neogén)
Subject: geomorphology, volcanology, geology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock, stony organ
Genesis: volcanic
Rock: nephelinite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: A - Protected Area (declared as Geological Locality)
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Lojka, R. et al.(2005): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČR 1:25 000, list 11-424 Dolní Bělá, - MS, ČGS

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Lojka Richard, 24.01.07
Updated by: Lojka Richard 14.10.08, Vajskebrová Markéta 22.04.21

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2672 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-27]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2672.

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