General Characteristics

County (administration): Olomouc Region
District (town): Olomouc
Cadastre: Třebčín
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2422, 24223
Geological region: Pliocene - Pleistocene of the Uppermoravia Valley, Mohelnice Furrow & Holešov platform
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
ID : 3950

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: The old abandoned shelf quarry exposing weathered Precambrian granodiorite. In one part of this quarry the oldest rocks of the Upper Moravian Vale are exposed. The rock represents two-mica granite up to granodiorite. In places it contains pegmatite nests and thin veins of aplite. The rocks is intensively weathered and could be used only as an aggregate for local purposes.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moravosilesian region - Brunovistulicum
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum - neoproterozoikum (1000 - 542 Ma)
Subject: petrology, mining and mining impacts
Geological phenomenon: intrusion
Genesis: magmatic
Rock: granite, granodiorite

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

Hlobilová J. (1963): Příspěvek k petrografii krystalinika v Hornomoravském úvalu I. - Acta Univ. Palacki. Olomuc., Fac. rer. nat., 10, 119-177; Puda S. (1973): Inventarisace ložisek stavebních nerostných surovin. List mapy M - 33 - 95 - A (Olomouc - západ). - Geologický průzkum, n. p. Ostrava

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Pořádek Přemysl, 03.11.16
Updated by: Kukal Zdeněk 26.09.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3950 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-03]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3950.

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