General Characteristics

County (administration): Karlovy Vary Region
District (town): Karlovy Vary
Cadastre: Heřmanov u Hradiště
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1122, 11223
Geological region: Cheb & Sokolov basins and Neovolcanics of the Doupovské hory Mts.
ID : 2692

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: The Cheb and Sokolovo basins and volcanics of the Doupovské hory Mts. A dyke of porphyric trachytoid with feldspar phenocrysts which was uncovered by selective erosion from surrounding olivinic analcimites.This trachytoid rock forms a distinct residual monadnock in the relief.
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: geomorphology, geology, lithology
Geological phenomenon: selective erosion, frost cliff, rock
Genesis: frost weathering
Rock: trachybasalt

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: C - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a registration in the database of CGS
Conflicts of interests: warfare

References

Hradecký P. et al.(2005): Základní geologická mapa České republiky 1 : 25 000 s Vysvětlivkami 11-223 Kyselka, - MS, ČGS

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Hradecký Petr, 25.01.07
Updated by: Gürtlerová Pavla 21.01.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2692 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-10]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2692.

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