General Characteristics

County (administration): Olomouc Region
District (town): Šumperk
Cadastre: Sobotín
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1442, 14421
Geological region: Silesicum and Žulová massif
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: old mine workings
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 903

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Outcrops in a road cut. Relics of activities of mineral collectors. Fissures in amfibolites and gneisses of the Sobotín Massif are filled by minerals of alpine paragenesis, mostly albite, epidote and prehnite. Mineralogically significant locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moravosilesian region - Silezicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - devon
Subject: mineralogy
Geological phenomenon: vein, mineral
Genesis: hydrothermal mineralization
Rock: amphibolite, gneiss

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature monument in Protected landscape area
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 Locality)
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Jeseníky
Conflicts of interests: collection

References

Kretschmer, F. (1895): Die Mineralfundstätten von Zöptau und Umgebung. - TMPM, 14, 156-187. Kretschmer, F. (1911): Das metamorphe Diorit- und Gabbromassiv in der Umgebung von Zöptau (Mähren) - Jahrb. d. geol. Reichanstalt, 61, 51-180. Berlin. Kruťa, T. et al. (1968): Die Mineralienparagenese in dem mittleren Teile des Altvatergebirges (Hrubý Jeseník, Hohes Gesenke, ČSSR). - Čas. Mor. Muz., přír., 53, 5-80. Brno. Neuwirth, V. (1906): Die Paragenetische Verhältnisse der Minerale im Amphibolitgebiet von Zöptau. - Zeitschr. d. mähr. Landesmuseum, 6, 2, 120-180. Brno. Sládek, R. (1973): Nerosty alpských žil v Hrubém Jeseníku. - Zpr. Vlast. úst. Olomouc, 161, 6-22. Olomouc. Novák, M. - Šrain, V. - Langrová, A. (1993): Epidote and Associated Fissure Minerals fromPfarred and Sobotín (Northern Moravia, Czech republic): A Manifestation of a Retrograde phase of the Variscan Regional Metamorphism., Proceed. of a Sympo., 125 Jahre Knappenwand. - Abh. Geol. B.-A., 49, 43-48. Wien.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Zimák Jiří, 15.11.93
Updated by: Pecina Vratislav 06.06.11, Gürtlerová Pavla 03.03.15

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 903 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-30]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/903.

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