General Characteristics

County (administration): Ústí nad Labem Region
District (town): Děčín
Cadastre: Knížecí
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0222, 02223
Geological region: Neovolcanics of the České středohoří Mts.
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: guarry
ID : 1875

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: An effusive complex with three lava flows of nepheline tephrite. It overlies Oligocene sediments with thin coal seams.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Tertiary - Dispersed Alcalic volcanits
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - terciér (paleogén - neogén)
Subject: geomorphology, stratigraphy, economic geology, mining and mining impacts, petrology, volcanology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock
Genesis: volcanic , sedimentary
Rock: tephrite

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

Opletal M. a kolektiv autorů, 2001: Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČR v měřítku 1 : 25 000 list 02223 Mikulášovice a 02214 Dolní Poustevna.- Český geologický ústav Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Opletal Mojmír, Fediuk Ferry,Nývlt D., 31.12.01
Updated by: Plíšek Antonín 12.11.04, Adamovič Jiří 17.02.07, Gürtlerová Pavla 15.05.14

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1875 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-04]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1875.

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