General Characteristics

County (administration): Ústí nad Labem Region
District (town): Teplice
Cadastre: Přítkov
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0232, 02322
Geological region: Krušné hory Mts. crystalline complex; Karlovy Vary Massif (SW part)
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
ID : 348

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Äbandoned quarry with a pophyritic rhyolite ignimbrite. It contains numerous quartz crystalloclasts together with K-feldspar, plagioclase and some biotite. Also poikilitic quartz-mica aggregates appear. Petrologically interesting locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Permocarboniferous Volcanits
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - perm
Subject: structural geology, petrology
Geological phenomenon: dyke, characteristic rock
Genesis: volcanic
Rock: ignimbrite, rhyolite

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: sports

References

Fiala, F. (1960): Teplický křemenný porfyr mezi Krupkou, Cínovcem, Dubím a Mikulovem a horniny přidružené. - Sbor. geol. věd, odd. geol., 26, 445-494. Praha. Sattran, V. (1966): Fluidal structures in the Teplice Quartz Porphyry. - Paleovolcanites of the Bohemian massif, Charles University, 185-190. Praha. Štemprok, M. - Lomozová, V. (1980): Litogeochemický výzkum teplického ryolitového komplexu v oblasti Krupky. MS ČGÚ Praha. Schovánková, D. (1987): Geologie a petrografie teplického ryolitu. - In: Jiránek, J. et al.: Komplexní geologické zpracování teplického ryolitu. MS ČGÚ Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Schovánková Daniela, 14.11.94

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 348 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-03]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/348.

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