General Characteristics

County (administration): Hradec Králové Region
District (town): Trutnov
Cadastre: Žacléř
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0342, 03422
Geological region: Permo-Carboniferous of the Krkonoše-piedmont and Lower Silesian basins
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: old mine workings, mine
ID : 3391

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Permocarboniferous of the Krkonoše Piedmont and Intrasudetic basins. Geologically and historically important locality, from 1994 Technical Monument. The 132 m deep mine was opened by the end of the 18th century, so called Upper Coal Seams of the Lampertice beds of the Carboniferous age were exploited there. The mine was closed in 1994, conserved and became Technical Monument run and operated by Žacléř Town.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Lugic Late Palaeozoicum (including Triassic deposits)
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - karbon
Subject: economic geology, mining and mining impacts
Geological phenomenon: outcrop
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: coal

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Technical or cultural monument
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: A - Protected Area (declared as Geological and Biological Locality)
Part of the Geopark: Broumovsko
Conflicts of interests: industry, reclamation

References

Žáčková E. et.al. (2012): Vysvětlivky k základni geologické mapě ČR 1 : 25 000 list 03-422 Žacléř. MS archiv ČGS.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Žáčková Eliška, 16.01.12
Updated by: Gürtlerová Pavla 08.02.12, Kukal Zdeněk 26.11.12

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3391 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-24]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3391.

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