General Characteristics

County (administration): South Moravia Region
District (town): Brno-venkov
Cadastre: Příbram na Moravě
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2434, 24341
Geological region: Letovice, Krhovice, Nectava and Svinov-Vranová crystalline complexes; Moravicum; crystalline complex of Miroslav horst; Brunovistulicum
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
ID : 3333

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Svratka Dome. Abandoned quarry with outcrops of medium grained porphyroclastic two-mica and biote orthogneiss, so called the Bíteš Orthogneiss. A granite of Cadomian age (about 600 Ma) served as a protolite. Stage of metamorphic intensity corresonds to amhpbolite facies. Potassium feldspar phenocrysts and fine quartz with undulatory extinction.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moravosilesian region - Moravicum
Stratigraphy: kadomské stáří vyvřelin
Subject: geology
Geological phenomenon: rock
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: orthogneiss

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., Bubík M., Franců J., Fürychová P., Havlín A., Gilíková H., Janderková J., Konečný F., Krejčí Z., Krumlová H., Kryštofová E., Kunceová E., Müller P., Paleček M., Pecina V., Poul I., Sedlaček J., Skácelová Z., Šrámek J., Tomanová Petrová P., Verner K., Večeřa J., Vít J. (2011): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě České republiky 1 : 25 000 list 24-341 Oslavany. Závěrečná zpráva, 257 s. MS Česká geologická služba.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Buriánek David, 26.10.11

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3333 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-06]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3333.

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