General Characteristics

County (administration): Liberec Region
District (town): Semily
Cadastre: Karlov
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0343, 03431
Geological region: Permo-Carboniferous of the Krkonoše-piedmont and Lower Silesian basins
Accessibility: - passable footpath
ID : 280

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Effusive amygdaloidic basaltandesite on the hill k. 568 m. Cu - mineralisation is connected with tectonically crushed rocks on the top of the hill: cuprite, malachite, chrysocolla, rarely pure Cu. Freatomagmatic up to strombolian Permian volcanic activity
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Permocarboniferous Volcanits
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - perm
Subject: volcanology, mineralogy, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: lava flow, characteristic rock
Genesis: volcanic
Rock: melaphyre

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Part of the Geopark: Bohemian Paradise
Conflicts of interests: vegetation, forestry

References

Sattran V. (1963): Magmatická ložiska. In Vysvětlivky k přehledné geologické mapě 1:200 000, list M-33-XVI Hradec Králové. - NČSAV Praha,p.149. Praha.; Stárková M., Rapprich V., Breitkreuz C. (2011a): Variable eruptive styles in an ancient monogenetic volcanic field: examples from the Permian Levín Volcanic Field (Krkonoše Piedmont Basin, Bohemian Massif). Journal of Geosciences 56, 2, 163-180. ISSN 1802-6222. DOI 10.3190/geosci.095.; Stárková M., Adamová M., Burda J., Čáp P., Drábková J., Dvořák I., Grygar R., Holásek O., Hroch T., Kycl P., Krupička J., Pécskay Z., Rapprich V., Rýda K., Řídkošil T., Skácelová Z., Šimůnek Z., Šebesta J., Tasáryová Z., Zajíc J. (2011b): Vysvětlivky k základni geologické mapě ČR 1 : 25 000 03-431 list Lomnice nad Popelkou. Závěrečná zpráva, 190 s. MS archiv ČGS.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Ziegler Václav, 19.11.93
Updated by: Prouza Vladimír 15.05.03, Prouza Vladimír 24.09.09, Stárková Marcela 15.11.11

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 280 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-05]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/280.

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