General Characteristics

County (administration): Ústí nad Labem Region
District (town): Louny
Cadastre: Mnichov u Loun, Raná u Loun
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0234, 02343
Geological region: Neovolcanics of the České středohoří Mts.
Accessibility: - entry permit for car necessary
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 982

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: An isolated hill of a basaltic body (nepheline basanite) forms a volcanic conduit exposed by selective erosion from the surrounding Cretaceous sediments (Upper Turonian, Coniacian: Teplice and Březno formations). A geomorphologically important locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin, Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Tertiary - Dispersed Alcalic volcanits
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - terciér (paleogén - neogén), mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída
Subject: geomorphology, volcanology, petrology, botany, zoology
Geological phenomenon: intrusion, selective erosion
Genesis: volcanic
Rock: basaltoid (basaltic-rock), marlstone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: National nature reserve in Protected landscape area
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)
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - České středohoří
Conflicts of interests: tourism, others human activity

References

Zoubek, V. - Škvor, V. et al. (1963): Vyvětlivky k přehledné geologické mapě ČSSR 1 : 200 000 M-33-XIV Teplice, M-33-VIII Chabařovice. - Ústř. úst. geol., ČSAV Praha; Janoška, M. (2013): Sopky a sopečné vrchy České republiky, Academia, Praha, 415 str.; Cajz V. a kol. (1996): České středohoří, geologická a přírodovědná mapa 1. 100 000, Český geologický ústav, 147 str.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Zelenka Přemysl, 10.01.94
Updated by: Plíšek Antonín 30.11.04, Adamovič Jiří 17.02.07, Zelenka Přemysl 31.07.07, Rapprich Vladislav 18.11.08, Zelenka Přemysl 21.09.09, Vajskebrová Markéta 14.09.21

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 982 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2023-12-08]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/982.

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