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General Characteristics

County (administration): Pardubice Region
District (town): Chrudim
Cadastre: Miřetice u Nasavrk
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1344, 13442
Geological region: Oheb, Svratka and Polička crystalline complex; Železné hory Mts. Proterozoic; Hlinsko Zone; Železné hory Mts. Pluton; Chrudim Palaeozoic
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 3619

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: The abandoned flooded quarries. Their rocks belong to the mantle of the Železné hory pluton. Both abyssal and metamorphic rocks are present in this area, mainly granodiorites and biotite migmatites. The 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 až proterozoikum
Subject: history
Geological phenomenon: cliff
Genesis: magmatic, metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: granodiorite, migmatite

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: private property

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, 05.11.12
Updated by: Kukal Zdeněk 12.09.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3619 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-03-28]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3619.

Location in map:

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Pietní místo vypálené obce Ležáky, kamenické vesničky, jejíž obyvatelé v okolí ručně těžili hybridní granodiorit a biotitický migmatit., Jan Doucek, 2014
Rybník v Ležákách, u kterého stával mlýn., Jan Doucek, 2014
lom Hluboká, Anon, 2011
Zatopený lom u památníku, Anon, 2011
lom Hluboká, Anon, 2011


(C) 2003-2012 ČGS, verse aplikace 1.21 [3.2.2016]