General Characteristics

County (administration): Vysočina Region
District (town): Žďár nad Sázavou
Cadastre: Žďár nad Sázavou
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2411, 24112
Geological region: Oheb, Svratka and Polička crystalline complex; Železné hory Mts. Proterozoic; Hlinsko Zone; Železné hory Mts. Pluton; Chrudim Palaeozoic
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
ID : 2913

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: The road cut with a series of rock outcrops.Most of these rocks represent two-mica paraggneisses paassing into pearl gneisses. These rock are in contact with so called Trhonice Marbles, which are exposed in nearby quarry. The pearl gneiss has a composition of two-mica gneiss up to biotite gneiss and contains plagioklase porphyroblasts. This locality belongs to the Polička Crystalline.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Polička crystalline complex
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum
Subject: geology
Geological phenomenon: rock
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: marble, dolomite, gneiss

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

Buriánek, D., a kol. (2008): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě České republiky 1 : 25 000 24-112 Jedlová. Česká geologická služba. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Gürtlerová Pavla, 12.11.08
Updated by: Buriánek David 26.11.12, Kukal Zdeněk 12.09.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2913 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-04]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2913.

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