General Characteristics

County (administration): Hradec Králové Region
District (town): Rychnov nad Kněžnou
Cadastre: Bílý Újezd
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1411, 14114
Geological region: Czech Cretaceous Basin - E-Bohemian and W-Moravian Cretaceous; Chrudim Cretaceous; Králíky Furrow; Police Basin
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 2536

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: A 100 m long and 10 m high outcrop at Bílý Újezd, on the left bank of the Zlatý potok Stream. Proterozoic phyllites of the Nové Město Group are overlain by laterites to bauxites 1-2 m thick with an old gallery after iron-ore mining dating to 1850s. Laterites are transgressed by Cretaceous sediments: Cenomanian claystones with plant debris, conglomerates and sandstones passing upwards to marlstones with belemnites, brachipods and bivalves, and finally dark siltstones with fragments of brachipod shells (Peruc-Korycany Formation). The topmost part is formed by Lower Turonian marlstones of the Bílá hora Formation.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Lugicum - Orlice-Sněžník crystalline complex, Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - cenoman, proterozoikum
Subject: stratigraphy, paleontology, mining and mining impacts
Geological phenomenon: transgression
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: marlstone, conglomerate

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: C - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a registration in the database of CGS
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

POKORNÝ, Richard. Návrh na vyhlášení sítě maloplošných chráněných území paleontologického charakteru v okrese Rychnov nad Kněžnou. MS-diplomová práce. 2004, 71 s., 11 příloh. Depon. In Katedra přírodních věd, Fakulta životního prostředí Univerzity J. E. Purkyně, Ústí nad Labem.POKORNÝ, Richard (ed.). Historie hornictví na Rychnovsku a současný stav vybraných starých důlních děl. In Acta Musei Richnoviensis, Sect. Natur. 2004, roč. 11, č. 1, s. 1-56.POKORNÝ, Richard. Studium ichnofosilií (fosilních stop po činnosti organismů) v sedimentech svrchní křídy na Rychnovsku. In Orlické hory a Podorlicko, 2005, roč. 13

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Pokorný Richard, 21.11.05
Updated by: Gürtlerová Pavla 17.05.06

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2536 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2536.

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