General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Kutná Hora
Cadastre: Kutná Hora
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1332, 13324
Geological region: Kutná Hora and Čáslav crystalline complexes
Accessibility: - entry permit for car necessary
Technical object: guarry
ID : 86

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned quarry in rocks of a Kutná Hora Crystalline. Filling of Cretaceous sediments in depressions. Occurrences of conglomerates and biodetrital limestones in which many paleontological taxons were described Interesting sedimentary structures. Accumulation of heavy minerals on the base of sedimentary sequence.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin, Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Kutná Hora and Svratka region - Kutná Hora crystalline complex
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - turon, proterozoikum
Subject: sedimentology, paleontology, geology
Geological phenomenon: transgression, lithological boundary, characteristic rock
Genesis: sedimentary, metamorphic (general metamorphism), aquatic (water activity)
Rock: migmatite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered geological localities suggested for protection
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Conflicts of interests: collection, vegetation, tourism, industry, reclamation

References

Knížetová, L. - Pecina, P. - Pivničková, M. (1987): Prověrka maloplošných chráněných území a jejich návrhů ve Středočeském kraji v letech 1982-85. - Bohemia centralis, 16, 7 - 262. Praha. Nekvasilová, O. - Žítt, J. (1988): Upper ceratrous epibionts cemented to genesiss boulders (Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czechoslovakia). - Čas. Mineral. Geol., 33, 3, 251-270. Praha. Žítt, J. - Nekvasilová, O. (1989): Paleontologicko - geologická charakteristika navrhovaného chráněného přírodního výtvoru Karlov (Kutná Hora). - Bohemia centralis, 18, 15-40. Praha.; Štědrá ed. (2010): Základní geologická mapa ČR 1 : 25 000, list 13-324 Kutná Hora s Vysvětlivkami. ČGS Praha

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Nekvasilová Olga, Žítt Jiří, 14.12.93
Updated by: Štědrá Veronika 17.06.10

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 86 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-30]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/86.

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