General Characteristics

County (administration): Vysočina Region
District (town): Pelhřimov
Cadastre: Počátky
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2332, 23324
Geological region: Bohemian Moldanubicum
Accessibility: - entry permit for car necessary
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 3907

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: This locality is in the form of a ledge or escarp. The rocks consist of a stromatitic migmatite up to migmatitized paragneisses with transition to biotitic metaquartzitic gneiss. Numerous boudins are made of metaquartzites and metaquartzitic gneisses and also erlans. Three metamorphic types of structure are observable, i.e. from foliation up to crenulation. This locality belongs to the Bohemian Moldanubicum.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moldanubicum - Metamorphic units in Moldanubicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: structural geology, geomorphology
Geological phenomenon: horizontal section
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: migmatite, paragneiss, qurtzite, gneiss

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: Vysočina
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Pertoldová. a kol. (2015): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě České republiky 1:25 000 23–324 Žirovnice. – MS Česká geologická služba, Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Nahodilová Radmila, 26.02.16
Updated by: Kukal Zdeněk 27.09.17, Kukal Zdeněk 10.11.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3907 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-26]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3907.

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