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General Characteristics

County (administration): Karlovy Vary Region
District (town): Karlovy Vary
Cadastre: Potůčky
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0143, 01433
Geological region: Krušné hory Mts. crystalline complex; Karlovy Vary Massif (SW part)
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: old mine workings, collapse sink, prospection hole
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 314

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Old mining works. Deep subsidence hole left after greisen exploitation. Process of greisenisation can be observed together with Sn mineralization of a Blatno granite. Methods of old mining can be studied at this locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Saxothuringicum - Krušné hory Mts. Pluton
Stratigraphy: variské (hercynské) stáří vyvřelin
Subject: mining and mining impacts, economic geology, petrology, mineralogy
Geological phenomenon: abyss, gully
Genesis: magmatic, anthropogenic (anthropogenic activity), hydrothermal mineralization
Rock: granite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature monument
Additional information: See the Digital register of the Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic AOPK ČR
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: A - Protected Area (declared as Geological Locality)
Part of the Geopark: Egeria
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Astor, E. (1992): Erzgebirge. Meyers Naturführer. - Meyers Lexikonverlag. - Mannheim - Leipzig - Wien - Zürich. 166 str. Mašek, M. (1984): Naučná stezka Horní Blatná - Vlčí jámy. - ONV Karlovy Vary. Breiter K. (1998): The Horní Blatná granite body in western Krušné hory Mts. and related tin mineralisation. - In: Breiter K. (1998, ed.): Genetic significance of phosphorus in fractionated granites. Excursion guide, 51-58. CGS Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Schovánek Pavel, 11.11.94
Updated by: Breiter Karel 27.01.04, Mlčoch Bedřich 16.09.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 314 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-25]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/314.

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Bedřich Mlčoch
Opuštěné dobývky bývalého dolu Wolfgang vzniklé propadem stropů., Motyčková Kamila - Šír Jiří, 2005
Opuštěné dobývky bývalého dolu Wolfgang., Motyčková Kamila - Šír Jiří, 2005
Opuštěné dobývky bývalého dolu Wolfgang vzniklé propadem stropů., Motyčková Kamila - Šír Jiří, 2005
Vlčí pinka - selektivní vydobyté části greisenizovaného granitu zrudnělého kassiteritem, Karel Breiter, 2003


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