General Characteristics

County (administration): Ústí nad Labem Region
District (town): Děčín
Cadastre: Malá Veleň
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0223, 02234
Geological region: Neovolcanics of the České středohoří Mts.
Accessibility: - special entry permit necessary (military area, quarry, private land)
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 3152

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Outcrops of volcaniclastic sediments with coarse fraction consisting of olivine basaltoids. In finer fractions there are also clasts of the Cretaceous sandstones and claystones. Petrologically interesting locality.
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: volcanology, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: intrusion
Genesis: volcanic
Rock: epiclastic deposits, basanite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registred geological localities suggested to protection in Protected landscape area
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - České středohoří
Conflicts of interests: waste disposal, exploitation

References

Hibsch, J. E. (1897): Geologische Karte des Böhmischen Mittelgebirges, Blatt III. (Bensen), nebst Erläuterungen. - A. Holder, Wien; Valečka, J. et al. (in prep.): Vysvětlivky a základní geologická mapa ČR 1:25 000, list 02-234 Děčín.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Cajz Vladimír, 24.11.93
Updated by: Valečka Jaroslav 28.04.09, Rapprich Vladislav 11.11.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3152 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-26]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3152.

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