General Characteristics
County (administration): Ústí nad Labem Region
District (town): Louny
Cadastre: Nečichy
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0234, 12122,02344
Geological region: Neovolcanics of the České středohoří Mts.
Accessibility: - access without footpath
Technical object: old mine workings
ID : 921
Geology
Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned quarry where a porcelanite was exploited. This outcrop shows a coal seam and Tertiary clays in different state of caustic metamorphosis. Even though the metamorphosis was intensive, sediments exhibit their primary bedding and sedimentary structures. Sedimentologically interesting 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: mining and mining impacts, sedimentology, economic geology
Geological phenomenon: porcelanites, fossils-flora
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: claystone
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
Hurník (1995); Zelenka, P. (1991): Porcelanity na Lounsku. - Geol. Průzk.,33, 2, 60. Praha. Elaboration and Updating
Elaborated by: Godány Josef, 08.05.96
Updated by: Gürtlerová Pavla 24.07.14, Zelenka Přemysl 24.08.15, Vajskebrová Markéta 03.09.21 Citation
The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 921 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-03-28]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/921. Location in map:
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