Geologic Park educational trail

Distance: 100 m

This educational trail, beginning at the edge of the spa town, presents an overview of the geological characteristics and floral communities of Slavkovský Forest.

The path follows along the slope of a beech forest above the Municipal Museum, and passes through the park with a free-nature exhibition featuring well-known and rare minerals occurring in the Slavkovský Forest area.

The plants, herbs, and bushes have been selected so as to correspond to their actual occurrence as connected with the geological base and soil conditions of the site of the mineral occurrence. The trail is about 1.5 km long, covers an area of nearly 10 hectares, and acquaints visitors with the geological history of the Karlovy Vary region.

The trail contains 20 information panels with stations:

1. Horská žula – Mountain granite
2. Žulový porfyr – Elvan
3. Krušnohorské žuly – Krušnohorský granite
4. Muskovitická žula – Muscovite granite
5. Albitické žuly – Albite granite
6. Greisen
7. Křemenná žilovina – Quartz gangue
8. Biotické ortoruly – Biotic orthogneiss
9. Migmatizované ruly – Migmatized gneiss
10. Pararuly - Gneisses
11. Svory – Mica schists
12. Kontaktní rohovec - Chert
13. Erlan – Pyroxene gneiss
14. Kontaktní rohovec – Chert
15. Kvarcit – Quartzite
16. Amfibolity a Eklogity – Amphibolites and Eclogites
17. Amfibolové ruly – Amphibolitic gneisses
18. Čedič - basalt
19. Hadec (serpentinite) – Serpentinite
20. Hadec (serpentinit) – Serpentinite

Other panels deal with plants typical for the geological composition of the given locality.