Geological Map of the Federal Republic of Germany 1:200,000 (GÜK200) — CC 5542 Dresden

Blatt Dresden captures the Erzgebirge and its surroundings: to the southeast, the North Bohemian Creidesenke, to the northeast the Elbe Zone, to the northwest the Erzgebirgssenke, the Granulit Massif and the Northwestern Eruptive Complex. The Pultscholle of the Ore Mountains is built by metamorphic rocks. During the cadomic and variscian folding, pre-kambrian grey waxes were transformed into paragn irons and ancient paleozoic sand and claystones into mica slates and phyllites. The Paragneise combined with Anatexites form the classic Graugneis complex of the Ore Mountains, which extends east of the Oederan Annaberg-Buchholz line. In the syn- and postvariscically intruded granites of the Ore Mountains, a distinction is made between the intrusive complexes of the western and Easter ore mountains. In the Osterzgebirge, acidic volcanoites (porphyres, rhyolites) also invaded. To the northeast, the crystalline basement of the Ore Mountains is superimposed by the molasses sediments of the Vorerzgebirgssenke (red-lying). The Granulit Mountains north consists of Variscian metamorphites (granulites, Schiefers), which appear in the lowlands of Zwickauer Mulde, Chemnitz and Zschopau. Otherwise, the Cretaceous complex is covered with kenozoic top layers. In the profile cut, the stored, synvastically intruded granite of Mittweida can be easily recognised. In the eruptive complex of northwestern Saxony, the occurrences of volcanics and ignitions, such as the Rochlitz Porphyrtuff or the Ignimbrit of Leisnig, testify to strong volcanism in the Perm. The Elbe zone is cut between the Ore Mountains and Lusatian overlays. In the southeast corner of the map sheet are depicted the North Bohemian Cretaceous and the Eger Tomb. Tertiary curler sediments and vulcanites (phonolite, trachyte, basalt) and sedimentary rocks of the chalk are stored here. A geological section in its northwest-southeast trajectory crosses the northwestern Saxon Eruptive Complex, the Granulit Massif, the Ore Mountains as well as the Eger Tomb and the North Bohemian Cretaceous. A detailed legend informs about the age, genesis and petrography of the represented units.