General Characteristics

County (administration): Plzeň Region
District (town): Plzeň-sever
Cadastre: Doubravice u Nečtin, Mezí, Újezd u Manětína
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1142, 11422
Geological region: Permo-Carboniferous and Tertiary of the Central Bohemian & Western Bohemian limnic regions
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
ID : 375

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Natural outcrops on a hill summit. Rocks are represented by trachybasalts. They exhibit interesting mesorelief features, as well developed pseudoswallow holes. Geomorphologically and petrologically important locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Tertiary - Dispersed Alcalic volcanits
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - terciér (paleogén - neogén)
Subject: geomorphology, volcanology
Geological phenomenon: castellated ridge, sinkhole, swallow hole, cliff, rock pillar
Genesis: volcanic , weathering
Rock: trachybasalt

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature reserve
Additional information: See the Digital register of the Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic AOPK ČR
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: A - Protected Area (declared as Geological Locality)
Conflicts of interests: sports

References

Zahradnický J., Mackovčin P. a kol.(2005): Plzeňsko a Karlovarsko. In: Mackovčin P. a Sedláček M.(eds.): Chráněná území ČR, svazek XI. Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR a EkoCentrum Brno, str. 349, Praha

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Žáček Vladimír, 16.10.94
Updated by: Rapprich Vladislav 11.11.09, Gürtlerová Pavla 12.11.09, Vajskebrová Markéta 07.05.16

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 375 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-18]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/375.

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