General Characteristics

County (administration): Karlovy Vary Region
District (town): Cheb
Cadastre: Mýtina - I.
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1132, 11321
Geological region: Teplá, Tachov, Smrčiny, Svatava, Cheb-Dyleň a Slavkov crystalline complexes, Thüringen - Vogtland Palaeozoic; Karlovy Vary Massif (SE part)
Accessibility: - entry permit for car necessary
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 359

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned quarry. Section through Pleistocene volcano with lavas and pyroclastics. One of the occurrences of the youngest volcanic rocks in the Bohemian Massif. Volcanologically significant, also geomorphological phenomena.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Quaternary - Quaternary volcanism of Bohemian Massif
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - kvartér
Subject: volcanology, quaternary geology, geomorphology, petrology
Geological phenomenon: vulcano, unconformity, volcaniclastic deposits, characteristic rock
Genesis: volcanic
Rock: tuff, tephra

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: National nature monument
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)
Part of the Geopark: Egeria
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Zahradnický J., Mackovčin P.a kol.(2005): Plzeňsko a Karlovarsko. In: Mackovčin P. a Sedláček M.(eds.): Chráněná území ČR, svazek XI. Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR a EkoCentrum Brno, Praha str.166-167

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Žáček Vladimír, 17.10.94
Updated by: Gürtlerová Pavla 21.06.07, Gürtlerová Pavla 13.11.08, Žáček Vladimír 14.06.10

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 359 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-25]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/359.

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