General Characteristics

County (administration): Plzeň Region
District (town): Klatovy
Cadastre: Rabí
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2231, 22312
Geological region: Šumava Moldanubicum - district KT; Moldanubicum of the Český les Mts.; Domažlice crystalline complex; W-Bohemian Pluton; W-Bohemian basic magmatites
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 442

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Large abandoned limestone quarry and a road cut. 50 m thick body of crystalline limestones, ocoarsely crystalline, dolomitized along tectonic fractures. Some interlayers of paragneiss. Interfingering between limestone and paragneiss can be observed. Very instructive well preserved outcrop. This locality belongs to so called "Variable Group of the Moldamnubicum".
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moldanubicum - Metamorphic units in Moldanubicum
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum
Subject: mining and mining impacts, economic geology, petrology
Geological phenomenon: deformation fabrics, characteristic rock
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: marble, dolomite, lamprophyre, paragneiss

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

Krutský N./1975/: Průzkum vápenců Rábí - II.etapa.-MS, Geofond.Praha. Vejlupek M. et al./1990/: Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČSFR 1:25 000, list 22-321 Nalžovské Hory.-MS,Archív Čes.geol.úst.Praha.; Mergl M., Vohradský O. (2000): Vycházky za geologickými zajímavostmi Plzně a okolí, Koura publising, Mariánské Lázně.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Vejlupek Miroslav, 13.11.93
Updated by: Gürtlerová Pavla 08.10.10, Kukal Zdeněk 03.11.17, Gürtlerová Pavla 05.04.18, Vajskebrová Markéta 17.08.21

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 442 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-05]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/442.

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