General Characteristics

County (administration): Karlovy Vary Region
District (town): Karlovy Vary
Cadastre: Záhorčice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1124, 11244
Geological region: Permo-Carboniferous and Tertiary of the Central Bohemian & Western Bohemian limnic regions
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 358

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Very pronounced morphological feature, table rock (mesa). Its relative elevation is 200 m. Formed of Tertiary basalt. Geomorphologically very significant, also archeological and botanical locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Tertiary - Dispersed Alcalic volcanits
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - terciér (paleogén - neogén)
Subject: volcanology, archeology, geomorphology, botany
Geological phenomenon: table mountain, vulcano, lava
Genesis: volcanic
Rock: nephelinite, scoria

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 )
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

CHYTRÁČEK, M. - DANIELISOVÁ, A. - POKORNÝ, P.- ŠMEJDA, L. (2010): Komplexní výzkum pravěkého hradiště na stolové hoře Vladař. - Živá archeologie, 11, 45-50.; Žáček et al. (2015) : Vysvětlivky ke geologické mapě 11-244 list Žlutice. - MS Archív ČGS Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Žáček Vladimír, 17.11.94
Updated by: Rapprich Vladislav 11.11.09, Žáček Vladimír 14.06.10, Žáček Vladimír 01.12.14

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 358 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-26]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/358.

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