General Characteristics

County (administration): Pardubice Region
District (town): Pardubice
Cadastre: Morašice v Železných horách
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1341, 13411
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: waste dump
ID : 3665

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: This locality is represented by old spoil dump. Forested area consists of Proterozoic volcanosedimentary rocks with phyllitized clayey shales, clayey graphitic shales and greywackes.They belong to so called Chvaletice Group of the Proterozoic age. All these rocks are intensively weathered and so covered by a muddy regolith. The rocks are also slightly metamorphosed. Nearby, also in an active quarry, fine grained two-mica granite is present. Mentioned dump has been accumulated during mining works. Some interesting minerals can be found there, such as rhodochrosite and rhodonite. 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: proterozoikum
Subject: mineralogy
Geological phenomenon: scree
Genesis: anthropogenic (anthropogenic activity)
Rock: slate, schist, 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, 08.02.13
Updated by: Kukal Zdeněk 12.09.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3665 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-27]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3665.

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