General Characteristics

County (administration): Plzeň Region
District (town): Klatovy
Cadastre: Srní I, Horská Kvilda, Svojše, Vchynice - Tetov
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2233, 22334
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 : 429

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Gorge of the river Vydra crossing the Šumava Mts. Its channel is filled with granite blocks and boulders sometimes with potholes. On canyon slopes blocky talus and felsenmeer. Geomorphologically extremely interesting.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moldanubicum - Magmatites in Moldanubicum, Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Quaternary - Quaternary of denudation areas of Bohemian Massif
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - kvartér, variské (hercynské) stáří vyvřelin
Subject: geomorphology, quaternary geology
Geological phenomenon: river channel, pothole, scree, block field
Genesis: aquatic (water activity), gravitational, metamorphic (general metamorphism), magmatic
Rock: granite, migmatite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: A - Protected Area (declared as Geological and Biological Locality)
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): NP (National park) - Šumava
Part of the Geopark: Královská Šumava
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Chábera S. (1982):Geologické zajímavosti jižních Čech.- Jihočeská vlastivěda, přírodní vědy,s.52-54, Jihočeské nakladatelství České Budějovice; Mergl M., Vohradský O. (2000): Vycházky za geologickými zajímavostmi Plzně a okolí, Koura publising, Mariánské Lázně; Vejlupek M., Vejnar Z. (1991): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČR, 1:250 000, 22-321. Horažďovice, Ústř. Úst. geol., 1-42, Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Babůrek Jiří, 03.10.94
Updated by: Gürtlerová Pavla 08.10.10, Vajskebrová Markéta 17.08.21

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 429 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-27]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/429.

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