General Characteristics

County (administration): Pardubice Region
District (town): Chrudim
Cadastre: Skuteč
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: - special entry permit necessary (military area, quarry, private land)
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 3667

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: This locality in a form of active quarry belongs to the Hlinsko Proterozoic and Palaeozoic. The cropping out rock series consists of contactly metamorphosed phyllitic schists, spotted schists, greywackes, cherty greywackes and fine grained greyish cherts. The rocks are crushed just in the quarry and are used as an aggregate for road covering. The lowest quarry level is flooded but in the upper levels the quarrying goes on.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Hlinsko Proterozoicum and Palaeozoicum (Hlinsko Zone)
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - ordovik
Subject: geology, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: cliff
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: slate, schist, greywacke, chert, hornfels

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: open cast mining

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: 3667 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-20]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3667.

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