General Characteristics

County (administration): Karlovy Vary Region
District (town): Karlovy Vary
Cadastre: Bochov
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1124, 11241
Geological region: Teplá, Tachov, Smrčiny, Svatava, Cheb-Dyleň a Slavkov crystalline complexes, Thüringen - Vogtland Palaeozoic; Karlovy Vary Massif (SE part)
Accessibility: - access without footpath
ID : 3744

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Small locality with the outcrop of typical rocks of the Mariánské lázně Complex. Rocky cliff about 5 metres high and 10 metres broad. This rock represents amphibolite, exactly garnet amphibolite, which is banded and laminated. The individual layers differ in contens of amphibole, feldspar and garnet. The rocks are of Proterozoic up to Palaeozoic age. The whole area belongs to the National Czech-Bavarian Geopark Egeria.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Mariánské Lázně complex
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum až proterozoikum
Subject: geology, petrology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: amphibolite

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: Egeria
Conflicts of interests: forestry

References

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

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Mlčoch Bedřich, 10.11.13
Updated by: Kukal Zdeněk 16.09.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3744 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-04]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3744.

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