Porcelanity u Skyřic-Lišnice
General Characteristics
County (administration):
Ústecký kraj
District (town):
Most
Village:
Bečov, Lišnice
Cadastre:
Lišnice, Kamenná Voda
Map sheets:
02-33 Chomutov, 02-334 Havraň
ID:
919
Geology
Short characteristics of the site:
Open pit with an outcrop of a porcelanite, sands, clays, tuffites and coal seam. Due to a spontaneous coal ignition clay was metamorphosed up to porcelanite. Interesting occurrences of flora. Paleontologically and sedimentologically interesting locality.
Regional geologic unit:
Bohemian Massif > Tertiary > Basins under Krušné hory Mts.and adjoining volcanic uplands
Stratigraphy:
Tertiary
Subject:
sedimentology, mining and mining impacts, paleontology
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Territorial protection
Level of protection:
Registered geological localities suggested for protection
Conflicts of interests:
without conflicts
References
Elaboration and Updating
Elaborated by:
Josef Godány, 08.05.1996
Updated by:
Citation
The database Important geological localities of the Czech Republic: 919 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2023-06-16]. Available from: https:// lokality.geology.cz/919.
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