General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Rakovník
Cadastre: Drahouš
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1213, 12133
Geological region: Barrandian Proterozoic; Tisá and Čistá-Jesenice massifs
Accessibility: - special entry permit necessary (military area, quarry, private land)
Technical object: guarry
ID : 3526

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Barrandian Neoproterozoic. Active quarry, now inactive. Outcrops of metabasalts with metatuffs and metatuffites, products of submarine extrusions. These rocks form a belt between granite plutons. They are dark, blackish-greenish, fine grained, massive with numerous veinlets with diopside and plagioclase. Locally accumulations of pyrrhotite are present.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum - neoproterozoikum (1000 - 542 Ma)
Subject: geology, petrology, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: rock, horizontal section, outcrop
Genesis: metamorphic (contact metamorphism)
Rock: metabasalt

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

Fiala,F.(1977):Proterozoický vulkanismus Barrandienu a problematika spilitů.- Sbor.geo.věd,Geol.30, 1 - 211. Praha.; Seifert A., red. (2012): Základní geologická mapa České republiky 1 : 25 000 s Vysvětlivkami 12-133 Jesenice. Česká geologická služba. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Štěpánek Petr, 03.05.12

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3526 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-06]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3526.

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