General Characteristics

County (administration): Ústí nad Labem Region
District (town): Teplice
Cadastre: Hrad Osek
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0232, 02323
Geological region: Krušné hory Mts. crystalline complex; Karlovy Vary Massif (SW part)
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 340

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Outcrop on a forested ridge. Well developed and preserved 40 m long recumbent fold formed of fine-grained paragneiss. Schistosity also developed. Tectonically instructive locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Saxothuringicum - Krušné hory and Smrčiny crystalline complexes
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum
Subject: structural geology, petrology
Geological phenomenon: fold, characteristic rock
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: paragneiss

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature reserve
Additional information: See the Digital register of the Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic AOPK ČR
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: A - Protected Area (declared as Geological Locality)
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Bezvodová, B. et al. (1994): Základní geologická mapa ČR 1 : 25 000, list 02-323 Duchcov - ČGÚ Praha, Mlčoch Bedřich a kolektiv autorů, 1994: Geologicky významné lokality v severočeské pánvi a jejím okolí, chráněné nebo navrhované k ochraně.- Český geologický ústav Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Schovánek Pavel, 27.10.94
Updated by: Plíšek Antonín 23.11.04

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 340 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-20]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/340.

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