General Characteristics

County (administration): Pardubice Region
District (town): Chrudim
Cadastre: Proseč u Skutče
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1433, 14331
Geological region: Oheb, Svratka and Polička crystalline complex; Železné hory Mts. Proterozoic; Hlinsko Zone; Železné hory Mts. Pluton; Chrudim Palaeozoic
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 3620

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: This locality occurs in the northern part of the Poolička Crystalline. The banded amphibolites and two-mica mica schists represent main rock types. The wall of the abandoned shelf quarry offered an interesting "Alpean paragenesis" of minerals such as zoisite, epidote and diopside. Numerous pinkish veinlets of granite transect the rock bodies. The quarry wall is not weathered and thus it allows to study of details of mutual relations between rock types. The locality belongs to the National Geopart "Železné hory - the Iron Mts."
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Polička crystalline complex
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum - neoproterozoikum (1000 - 542 Ma)
Subject: geology, mineralogy
Geological phenomenon: rock, scree, dyke, mineral
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: amphibolite

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, 05.11.12
Updated by: Kukal Zdeněk 12.09.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3620 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-19]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3620.

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