General Characteristics

County (administration): Liberec Region
District (town): Liberec
Cadastre: Horní Suchá u Liberce
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0313, 03134
Geological region: Lužice Pluton and Krkonoše-Jizera Massif; Krkonoše-Jizera crystalline complex
ID : 533

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Natural outcrops and also old quarrying activity. Exposures of the Ordovician quartzite, tectonically deformed and affected by a metamorphosis. Locality is near the contact between quartzites and Devonian limestones. The contact is tectonic, possibly represents a gentle overthrust. Tectonically important locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Lugicum - Krkonoše-Jizerské hory Mts.crystalline complex
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: structural geology, geology, petrology
Geological phenomenon: rock, outcrop, fault
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism), sedimentary
Rock: qurtzite, limestone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered geological localities suggested for protection
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Nebyla použita

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Chlupáč Ivo, 21.04.93
Updated by: Lorencová Markéta 26.06.07, Mrázová Štěpánka 21.10.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 533 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-20]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/533.

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