Cezlak () is a small settlement on the southern slope of the Pohorje range in the

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in northeastern

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. The area is part of the traditional region of

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. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the

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Cultural heritage

There is a small roadside

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in the settlement. It was built in 1898.Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 6978

Mineralogy

Since the beginning of 20th century, a

granodiorite Granodiorite ( ) is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock similar to granite, but containing more plagioclase feldspar than orthoclase feldspar. The term banatite is sometimes used informally for various rocks ranging from gra ...

quarry has been operating there, once used mostly for setts for

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s and

square In geometry, a square is a regular polygon, regular quadrilateral. It has four straight sides of equal length and four equal angles. Squares are special cases of rectangles, which have four equal angles, and of rhombuses, which have four equal si ...

s. The only known deposit of cizlakite (quartz monzogabbro, a green

plutonic rock Intrusive rock is formed when magma penetrates existing rock, crystallizes, and solidifies underground to form ''intrusions'', such as batholiths, dikes, sills, laccoliths, and volcanic necks.Intrusive RocksIntrusive rocks accessdate: March ...

) in the world has been found near Cezlak.

References

External links

Cezlak on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Slovenska Bistrica {{Slovenska-Bistrica-geo-stub