General Characteristics

County (administration): Olomouc Region
District (town): Šumperk
Cadastre: Chrastice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1423, 14234
Geological region: Orlice-Sněžník, Nové Město and Staré Město crystalline complexes
Accessibility: - entry permit for car necessary
Technical object: guarry, waste dump
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 611

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Old open pit in a body of the patchy serpentinite. This serpentinite forms a lens-like body on the fracture zone. Petrologically important locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Lugicum - Orlice-Sněžník crystalline complex
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: structural geology, mining and mining impacts, geology, petrology, economic geology
Geological phenomenon: rock, outcrop
Genesis: anthropogenic (anthropogenic activity)
Rock: serpentinite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature monument
Additional information: See the Digital register of the Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic AOPK ČR
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: A - Protected Area (declared as Geological and Biological Locality)
Conflicts of interests: waste disposal

References

Kretschmer,Fr./1917/:Der metamorphe Dioritgabbrogang nebst seinen Peridotiten und Pyroxeniten im Spieglitzer Schnee-u.Bielengebirge.-Jahrb.d.geol.Reichsanst.,Wien,67. Němec,Fr.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Skácel Jaroslav, 07.01.94
Updated by: Gürtlerová Pavla 19.11.07, Pecina Vratislav 01.06.11

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 611 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-26]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/611.

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