General Characteristics

County (administration): South Bohemia Region
District (town): Český Krumlov
Cadastre: Horní Planá
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 3223, 32231
Geological region: Šumava Moldanubicum - districts ST, PT, CK, CB, PI
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
ID : 3725

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: This locality displays a form a rocky cliff (klip)made of a dyke of muscovite-biotite granite, migmatitized paragneiss and erlan. There are also small overgrown dumps reminding old exploiting of marble and erlan. Between erlans and marbles a gradual transition can be observed, The erlan also opccurs in form of irregular bodies a migmatite massif. The locality belongs to the Moldanubicum Zone of the Šumava Mts. and South Bohemia.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moldanubicum - Metamorphic units in Moldanubicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: petrology, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: intrusion, block field, horizontal section, frost cliff
Genesis: magmatic, metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: migmatite, granite, calc-silicate rock

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Interesting geological localities in Protected landscape area
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Šumava
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Pertoldová J., Nahodilová R. eds (2013): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě 1:25 000 list 32-231 Horní Planá. - MS, ČGS Praha

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Doláková Eva, 09.10.13
Updated by: Pertoldová Jaroslava 16.10.13, Kukal Zdeněk 29.09.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3725 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-05]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3725.

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