General Characteristics

County (administration): Ústí nad Labem Region
District (town): Teplice
Cadastre: Nové Dvory, Nechvalice u Byst., Malhostice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0232, 02324
Geological region: Most Basin
Technical object: guarry, old mine workings
ID : 920

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Active quarry where a porcelanite is exploited. This porcelanite was formed by a spontaneous ignition of a coal seam and caustic metamorphosis of clays. Their thickness if 25 metres. This is the only locality where porcelanite is exploited. Petrologically significant site.
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, economic geology, petrology

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered geological localities suggested for protection
Conflicts of interests: reclamation, open cast mining

References

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Godány Josef, 08.05.96

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 920 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-28]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/920.

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