General Characteristics

County (administration): South Bohemia Region
District (town): Písek
Cadastre: Zahořany
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2221, 22214
Geological region: Central Bohemian Pluton and Roof Pendants of the Central Bohemian Pluton
ID : 470

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Forested hill with natural outcrops. This locality is situated near the contact between metamorphic islets and granitoids of the Central Bohemian Pluton. Exposure of grey-green erlane with following mineral association: garnet, pyroxene, plagioclase, vesuvianite. Petrologically interesting locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Island zone of Cntral Bohemian Pluton (roof pendants)
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: petrology, mineralogy, geomorphology

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered geological localities suggested for protection
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Chlupáč I./1991/: Nově navrhované chráněné geologické lokality v okolí Sedlčan a Krásné Hory.-Čas.Mineral.Geol.36:163-173.Praha. Svoboda J./1933/: Metamorfovaný ostrov sedlčansko-krásnohorský-.Archiv přírodověd.Výzkum Čech,18,4:1-62.Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Chlupáč Ivo, 22.11.92

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 470 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2023-12-08]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/470.

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