General Characteristics

County (administration): Ústí nad Labem Region
District (town): Most
Cadastre: Mníšek
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0231, 02314
Geological region: Krušné hory Mts. crystalline complex; Karlovy Vary Massif (SW part)
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 329

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Outcrops on a hill summit. Occurrences of a coarse-grained porphyritic metagranite embedded in a muscovite-biotite orthogneiss. Well developed boudinage and foliation. Evidences of frost weathering. Geomorphologically and petrologically impotant locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Saxothuringicum - Krušné hory and Smrčiny crystalline complexes
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum
Subject: petrology, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: deformation fabrics, natural window, rock schelter, characteristic rock
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: orthogneiss

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered geological localities suggested for protection
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Mlčoch, B. et al. (1990): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČSSR 1 : 25 000 02-314 Litvínov. - ÚÚG Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Mlčoch Bedřich, 11.11.94
Updated by: Mlčoch Bedřich 08.10.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 329 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-16]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/329.

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