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General Characteristics

County (administration): Hradec Králové Region
District (town): Trutnov
Cadastre: Žacléř
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0342, 03422
Geological region: Lužice Pluton and Krkonoše-Jizera Massif; Krkonoše-Jizera crystalline complex
Accessibility: - passable footpath
ID : 3392

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Krkonoše-Jizera Crystalline. Outcrops in the brook valley exposing metabasites. They contain relics of primary rocks metamorphosed under blueschist facies conditions. High-pressure and low-temperature metamorphosis was associated with subduction of plate passive margin of the Saxothuringicum under a nucleus of the Bohemian Massif.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Lugicum - Krkonoše-Jizerské hory Mts.crystalline complex
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: geology, petrology
Geological phenomenon: outcrop
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: metabasite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Interesting geological localities in National park
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): NP (National park) - Krkonoše
Part of the Geopark: Broumovsko
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

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: 3392 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-07]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3392.

Location in map:

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Eliška Žáčková, 2010


(C) 2003-2012 ČGS, verse aplikace 1.21 [3.2.2016]