General Characteristics

County (administration): Karlovy Vary Region
District (town): Karlovy Vary
Cadastre: Andělská Hora
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1123, 11232
Geological region: Teplá, Tachov, Smrčiny, Svatava, Cheb-Dyleň a Slavkov crystalline complexes, Thüringen - Vogtland Palaeozoic; Karlovy Vary Massif (SE part)
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 2535

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: A rocky hill with ruins of the Engelsberg Castle at Andělská Hora SE of Karlovy Vary. The hiss is an exhumed plug of sodalite-nepheline trachyte/trachyandesite of Tertiary age, rising 100 m above the levelled granitic surface (etchplain) around. Base of the hill is covered by talus and solifluction stony loams.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Tertiary - Dispersed Alcalic volcanits
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - terciér (paleogén - neogén)
Subject: botany, volcanology, petrology, archeology
Geological phenomenon: rock
Genesis: volcanic
Rock: trachyte

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registred geological localities suggested to protection in Protected landscape area
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Slavkovský les
Part of the Geopark: Egeria
Conflicts of interests: tourism, ground instability

References

Geologická mapa ČR 1:50 000, list 11-23 Sokolov, ČGÚ Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Rojík Petr, 20.03.06
Updated by: Žáček Vladimír 11.05.10

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2535 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2023-09-27]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2535.

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