General Characteristics

County (administration): Karlovy Vary Region
District (town): Karlovy Vary
Cadastre: Bražec u Hradiště
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1124, 11241
Geological region: Cheb & Sokolov basins and Neovolcanics of the Doupovské hory Mts.
Accessibility: - special entry permit necessary (military area, quarry, private land)
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 3740

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: This locality is represented by a landslide. Unstability of weathered granite, clays with tuffs and Palaeogenic sediments caused an extensive earth slope movement. Because of this, the surface of limburgite lava flow has been exposed.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Quaternary - Quaternary of denudation areas of Bohemian Massif
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - kvartér - holocén - svrchní holocén
Subject: quaternary geology, geomorphology
Geological phenomenon: landslide
Genesis: gravitational
Rock: colluvium

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
Conflicts of interests: warfare

References

Mlčoch ed. (2013): Vysvětlivky k mapě 1 : 25 000 list 11-241 Bochov

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Rapprich Vladislav, 10.11.13
Updated by: Kukal Zdeněk 25.09.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3740 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-19]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3740.

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