General Characteristics

County (administration): South Bohemia Region
District (town): Český Krumlov
Cadastre: Černá v Pošumaví
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 3223, 32233
Geological region: Šumava Moldanubicum - districts ST, PT, CK, CB, PI
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
ID : 3159

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Moldanubicum, metamorphic unit. Abandoned shelf quarry exhibiting crystalline limestone. Important geological locality, showing part of the Varied Series of the Bohemian Moldanubicum. Crystalline limestone is whitish and greyish and contains some interlayers of biotite paragneiss. Locally banding and folding of limestone can be seen.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moldanubicum - Metamorphic units in Moldanubicum
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum
Subject: geology, structural geology, economic geology
Geological phenomenon: deformation fabrics, characteristic rock
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: marble, dolomite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Interesting geological localities in Protected landscape area
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: C - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a registration in the database of CGS
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Šumava
Conflicts of interests: waste disposal

References

Vrána S. et al. (2009): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě České republiky 1:25 000, 32-233 Černá v Pošumaví. - MS Čes. geol. služ. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Vrána Stanislav, 28.01.10
Updated by: Seifert Antonín 16.09.10, Kukal Zdeněk 08.10.12

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3159 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-26]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3159.

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