General Characteristics

County (administration): Ústí nad Labem Region
District (town): Most
Cadastre: Korozluky-Dobrčice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0234, 02341
Geological region: Neovolcanics of the České středohoří Mts.
Accessibility: - entry permit for car necessary
Technical object: old mine workings
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 918

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Series of outcrops in an abandoned and active sand pit. Cretaceous and Tertiary sediments with coal seams and caustically metamorphosed clays up to porcelanite. This heat metamophosis was triggered by a spontanceous ignition of one of the coal seams. Petrologically significant locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Tertiary - Basins under Krušné hory Mts.and adjoining volcanic uplands
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - terciér (paleogén - neogén)
Subject: sedimentology, paleontology, economic geology
Geological phenomenon: fossils-flora, bed, porcelanites
Genesis: metamorphic (caustic metamorphism)
Rock: clay, sand

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registred geological localities suggested to protection in Protected landscape area
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - České středohoří
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Cajz, V. (edit.), 1996: České středohoří. Geologická a přírodovědná mapa 1:100000. - Str. 28, ČGÚ, Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Godány Josef, 08.05.96
Updated by: Rapprich Vladislav 18.11.08

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 918 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-02]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/918.

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