Lusatian Fault

The Lusatian Fault, often called Lusatian Thrust, is the most important geological fault zone between the Elbe Valley and the Giant Mountains. It separates as a rejection of the Lausitz granite from the south pending Cretaceous sandstones of northern Bohemia. We assume a jump height of several hundred meters, while the northerly area was lifted or pushed against the south.

Course

The beginning of the fault is to be set in the west at about Oschatz. Landscape formative fault occurs the first time in Weinbohla as a steep step in appearance. From then on, it runs along the northern edge of the Dresdner Elbtalweitung eastward, forming the banks of the Elbe from Dresden Radebeul to Pirna. From then on, it runs scenic little perceptible along the northern edge of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains about Hohenstein and Hinterhermsdorf. In Hohenstein is located on the so-called Wartenberg road the only geologic outcrop where the granite of the Lausitz lies immediately above the sandstone.

Further east, following the rejection of the northern edge of the Lusatian / Zittau Mountains on Jiřetín pod Jedlovou (St. George Thal ), Walter village and Olbersdorf. Scenic influential in the rejection phenomenon occurs then, however, especially east of the Zittau Mountains.

In the Czech lands again the rejection essentially follows the ridge line of the Jeschke Mountains. With Jested ( ridge) is there on the footwall of the highest point as a highly visible scenic dominant. Almost straight out the fault along the Ještědsko - kozákovský hřbet east - broken by the valleys of the Mohelka and the Jizera - to Kozákov in the Bohemian Paradise. In Mala Skala is located with the Suché rocks the most remarkable geological information in the area of the fault. There once horizontally lying sandstone beds were brought by the pressure of the fault in a vertical position and now form an impressive rock formation.

Geology

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The above deferred rock emerged in the early Carboniferous ( Lower Carboniferous ). The rock strata of the Carboniferous were conglomerates, greywacke, shale and limestone sediments of the primeval ocean. In this rock layers was tectonically piled the granite massif during the Variscan orogeny.

Granite is a plutonic rock, which was lifted tectonically. In this process created distortions and problems, which made it possible eruptive Gesteinsmagmen to be deposited in places en masse over the granite. The Lusatian granite massif consists of several granitic intrusions of granodiorite, two mica granite and granite floor. The granodiorite is the main deposits and is mined in several quarries, ( Demitz - Thumitz, Königshain, Small Postwitz at Bautzen, etc.) greywacke was mined in the quarries near Kamenz mainly for concrete production. Ores are hardly included in the Lusatian granite, but can be found occasionally in transition rocks ( quartz, pyrrhotite ).