General Characteristics

County (administration): Pardubice Region
District (town): Ústí nad Orlicí
Cadastre: Choceň
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1431, 14312
Geological region: Czech Cretaceous Basin - E-Bohemian and W-Moravian Cretaceous; Chrudim Cretaceous; Králíky Furrow; Police Basin
Accessibility: - passable footpath
ID : 107

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Outcrops in the river bank,geomorpholocally remarkable features. Rocks consist of competent calcareous sandstones (Jizera ormation, Turonian). Geomorphologically and sedimentologically interesting locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - turon
Subject: geomorphology, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: selective erosion, rock, horizontal section, rock salient, rock pillar
Genesis: sedimentary, aquatic (water activity), tectonic
Rock: opuka (aranaceous marlstone)

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature reserve
Additional information: See the Digital register of the Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic AOPK ČR
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: A - Protected Area (declared as Geological and Biological Locality)
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Faltysová H., Bárta F. a kol. Pardubicko (2002):In: Mackovčin P., Sedláček M.(eds): Chráněná území ČR, Svazek IV. Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR a EkoCentrum Brno, str.204, Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Čech Stanislav, 31.10.94
Updated by: Čech Stanislav 21.11.09, Gürtlerová Pavla 17.10.12

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 107 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-07]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/107.

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