General Characteristics

County (administration): Plzeň Region
District (town): Klatovy
Cadastre: Velhartice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2231, 22313
Geological region: Šumava Moldanubicum - district KT; Moldanubicum of the Český les Mts.; Domažlice crystalline complex; W-Bohemian Pluton; W-Bohemian basic magmatites
Accessibility: - passable footpath
ID : 3856

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: This locality belongs to the Moldanubicum Unit of the Šumava Mts. It consists of metaquartzite outcrops around and within the Velhartice Castle and nearby Borek Hill. This metaquartzite shows a tabular jointing, the rock is fine grained, greyish, and except of prevailing quartz consists of muscovite, potassium feldspar, sillimanite, chloritized biotite, zircon and some monazite.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moldanubicum - Metamorphic units in Moldanubicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum až proterozoikum
Subject: geology, petrology
Geological phenomenon: rock, characteristic rock
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: qurtzite

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

Žáčková E. a kolektiv autorů (2015): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČR v měřítku 1 : 25 000 list 22313 Velhartice.- Česká geologická služba Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Žáčková Eliška, 09.06.15
Updated by: Kukal Zdeněk 12.09.17, Kukal Zdeněk 06.11.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3856 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-19]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3856.

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