The Sokolov Basin or Falkenau Basin (Czech: Sokolovská pánev; German: Falkenauer Becken, formerly also Falkenau-Elbogen-Karlsbader Becken) is a structural basin and geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is located in the central part of the Karlovy Vary Region. It is named after the town of Sokolov. It is known for its deposits of lignite, which has been extracted here to a greater extent since the second half of 19th century.
The SokolovBasin or Falkenau Basin (Czech: Sokolovská pánev; German: Falkenauer Becken, formerly also Falkenau-Elbogen-Karlsbader Becken) is a structural...
Slavkov Forest, only the northwestern part of the town extends into the SokolovBasin. The highest point is the hill Zelenáč at 707 m (2,320 ft) above sea...
most of the built-up area lies in a relatively flat landscape of the SokolovBasin. The southern part, including the valley of the Teplá River, lies in...
geomorphological mesoregions: Ore Mountains (north), SokolovBasin (centre), Slavkov Forest (south), Cheb Basin (small part in the west) and Fichtel Mountains...
north east. Areas affected the most by heavy industry are the SokolovBasin and the Most Basin in the north-west of the Czech Republic. The extensive deposits...
by narrow fingers of the aforementioned basin. South(east) of the Western Ore Mountains lie the SokolovBasin, the Eger Graben and the Doupov Mountains...
northeast along the valley of the Bílina and later, as the North Bohemian Basin, separates the Ore Mountains from the Bohemian Central Mountains, where...
the SokolovBasin. Along the underflow of the Svatava, there is the market town of Svatava. After 41 km (25 mi), the Svatava joins the Ohře in Sokolov. Glasbach...
The remaining two provinces, Western Pannonian Plain within the Pannonian Basin and North European Plain within the European Plain, cover only a small part...
of the Ore Mountains, the southern part of Habartov extends into the SokolovBasin. The highest point is the hill Částkovský vrch at 598 metres (1,962 ft)...
earlier, in 1952, proposed by Russian geologist and paleontologist Boris Sokolov. The Vendian concept was formed stratigraphically top-down, and the lower...
Bibcode:1990MarGR..12..197T. doi:10.1007/bf02266713. S2CID 129241736. Chamov, N. P.; Sokolov, S. Yu.; Kostyleva, V. V.; Efimov, V. N.; Peive, A. A.; Aleksandrova, G...
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