General Characteristics

County (administration): Pardubice Region
District (town): Chrudim
Cadastre: Smrček u Žumberku
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: - access without footpath
ID : 3662

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: This locality shows block field with small outcrop. The rocks are products of the Variscan magmatic aktivity. Granites, diorites and diorite porphyries are present. several varieties of rocks occur. Granodiorites and tonalites are older, granite dykes of the Žumberk granite younger. Small cliff of amphibole-pyroxene gabbrodiorite also occurs there. Except of common rock forming minerals it contains also pyrite and magnetite. This locality belongs to the National Goeopark "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: geology
Geological phenomenon: intrusion, rock
Genesis: magmatic
Rock: granite, diorite, porphyry, gabbro

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: forestry

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, 08.02.13
Updated by: Rambousek Petr 14.10.13, Kukal Zdeněk 12.09.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3662 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-23]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3662.

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