General Characteristics

County (administration): Pardubice Region
District (town): Chrudim
Cadastre: Smrček u Žumberku
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1342, 13424
Geological region: Oheb, Svratka and Polička crystalline complex; Železné hory Mts. Proterozoic; Hlinsko Zone; Železné hory Mts. Pluton; Chrudim Palaeozoic
Accessibility: - passable footpath
ID : 3612

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: This locality is represented by a stony field and small outcrops. It .occurs in the northern part of the Železné hory pluton. The rocks consist of Palaeozoic fine grained biotite granite with some muscovite. In surrounding forests blocks and boulders are disseminated. They are often rounded and accumulated in form of stone fields. That is why this locality is called "kamenné stádo - the Stony Herd". This stone accumulation is of periglacial origin. This locality belongs to the National Geopark "Železné hory - the Iron Mts."
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Magmatites in Bohemicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - karbon, paleozoikum - perm
Subject: geomorphology
Geological phenomenon: outcrop
Genesis: magmatic, weathering
Rock: granite

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
Part of the Geopark: Železné hory
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

DOUCEK, Jan (2012): Národní Geopark Železné hory - mapování. Závěrečná zpráva, MS Vodní zdroje Chrudim, spol. s r. o.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Králová Anna, 02.11.12
Updated by: Rambousek Petr 14.10.13, Kukal Zdeněk 12.09.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3612 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-26]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3612.

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