General Characteristics

County (administration): Liberec Region
District (town): Liberec
Cadastre: Padouchov
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0332, 03321
Geological region: Lužice Pluton and Krkonoše-Jizera Massif; Krkonoše-Jizera crystalline complex
Technical object: guarry
ID : 551

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Old quarries and adjacent dumps. Most important paleontological locality of the Ještěd Ridge. Devonian fauna serves as an evidence of this age. Very interesting karst features, including karst spring. Important locality indicating Devonian facial development, also technical historical monument showing old methods of quarrying.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Lugicum - Krkonoše-Jizerské hory Mts.crystalline complex
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - devon - střední devon - givet
Subject: paleontology, sedimentology, mining and mining impacts, petrology
Geological phenomenon: cliff, karst, exsurgence
Genesis: sedimentary, metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: 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

Chlupáč, I., Hladil, J. (1992): New Devonian occurrences in the Ještěd Mts., North Bohemia : Nové výskyty devonu v Ještědském pohoří v severních Čechách. Časopis pro mineralogii a geologii, vol. 37, no. 3,s. 185-191.; CHLUPÁČ, I. (1993): Stratigraphic evaluation of some metamorphic units in the N part of the Bohemian Massif. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, vol. 188, no. 3, s. 363-388.; Rubáš, D. (2017): Přírodní klenoty Podještědí : obrazový průvodce krajinou. 1. vydání. 363 stran.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Chlupáč Ivo, 21.04.93
Updated by: Mrázová Štěpánka 22.10.09, Vajskebrová Markéta 11.01.20

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 551 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-25]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/551.

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