General Characteristics

County (administration): Karlovy Vary Region
District (town): Karlovy Vary
Cadastre: Lubenec
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1124, 11244
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 : 3817

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: The rocky cliffs with an observation point. It forms part of a rocky range called "Liščí skály - the Fox Rocks". They consist of the botite granite passing into granodiorite of so called "the Lubenec Type". This locality offers a pretty outlook on the Doupovské hory Mts. The educational trail makes possible to visit also outcrops of leucocratic granite with perthitic potassium feldspar and common granite rock mineral association. The whole area belongs to the Teplá Crystalline Complex.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Teplá crystalline complex, Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Magmatites in Bohemicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: geology, geomorphology, petrology, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: rock salient
Genesis: magmatic
Rock: granite

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: without conflicts

References

BREITER, K. (2004): Granitoidy tiského masivu. - Zpr. geol. Výzk. v Roce 2003., 13-16, Praha; Žáček et al. (2015) : Vysvětlivky ke geologické mapě 11-244 list Žlutice. - MS Archív ČGS Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Žáček Vladimír, 01.12.14
Updated by: Kukal Zdeněk 16.09.17, Kukal Zdeněk 26.09.17, Kukal Zdeněk 28.11.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3817 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-20]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3817.

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