General Characteristics

County (administration): Liberec Region
District (town): Liberec
Cadastre: Jitrava, Bílý Kostel nad Nisou
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0313, 03134
Geological region: Lužice Pluton and Krkonoše-Jizera Massif; Krkonoše-Jizera crystalline complex
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: guarry
ID : 527

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Old quarry and adjacent natural outcrops. Section of the Upper Devonian sediments, reference locality for the interpretation of a stratigraphy of the West Sudeten area. Outcrops of black phyllites and Famennian limestones with conodont fauna.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Lugicum - Krkonoše-Jizerské hory Mts.crystalline complex
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: stratigraphy, paleontology, petrology
Geological phenomenon: karst, fossils fauna
Genesis: sedimentary, metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: phyllite, limestone, slate, schist

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature reserve
Additional information: See the Digital register of the Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic AOPK ČR
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: A - Protected Area (declared as Geological and Biological Locality)
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Fritsch /1869/ Gallwitz /1930/ Chlupáč /1964, 1993/ Kettner-Kodym /1919/ Kodym-Svoboda /1948/ Koliha /1929/ Řehák /1974/ Zikmundová /1964/; Mackovčin P., Sedláček M. a Kuncová J. (2002): Chráněná území ČR - Liberecko, Svazek III. Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR a EkoCentrum Brno, Praha, 331 s.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Chlupáč Ivo, 21.04.93
Updated by: Lorencová Markéta 26.06.07, Mrázová Štěpánka 20.10.09, Mrázová Štěpánka 22.10.09, Vajskebrová Markéta 22.05.20

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 527 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-24]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/527.

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