General Characteristics

County (administration): Vysočina Region
District (town): Jihlava
Cadastre: Doupě
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2341, 23413
Geological region: Moldanubian Pluton - Central Massif; Melechov Massif
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 3536

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Moldanubicum, Central Massif. Nature Reserve. The Roštejn Castle with its neighbouring castle koppies. The castle itself was constructed on a cryoplanation surface. Bedrock consists of a fine grained muscovite-biotite Moldanubian granite. Marginal slopes are covered with block fields. With increasing distance from a summit blocky deposits pass into congelifluctional residues. The granites posses typical block-bedded disintegration. Granite blocks are cut by thin quartz veins which often weather out. Protected beech vegetation.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moldanubicum - Magmatites in Moldanubicum
Stratigraphy: variské (hercynské) stáří vyvřelin
Subject: geology, structural geology, geomorphology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock, deformation fabrics
Genesis: magmatic
Rock: granite

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 (geology is important aspect of Biological declared Locality )
Part of the Geopark: Vysočina
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Albrecht J. a kol. (2003): Českobudějovicko. In: Mackovčin P. a Sedláček M.(eds.): Chráněná území ČR, svazek VIII. Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR a EkoCentrum Brno, str.176 Praha.; Verner, K. et al. (2012): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě 1 : 25 000 list 23-413 Hodice; Tauber, O. (1987): Periglaciální tvary jihozápadní části Českomoravské vrchoviny, Vlastivědný sborník Vysočiny, oddíl věd přírodních, svatek VIII, str. 52-53.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Jirková Pavlína, 30.11.09
Updated by: Gürtlerová Pavla 13.10.10, DudíkSchulmannová Barbora 04.07.12, Kukal Zdeněk 22.11.17, Vajskebrová Markéta 16.08.23

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3536 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-02]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3536.

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