General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Kutná Hora
Cadastre: Lovčice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1341, 13413
Geological region: Czech Cretaceous Basin - Labe & Čáslav Cretaceous; Cretaceous of the Dlouhá mez
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
ID : 2509

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: A Cretaceous plateau gently inclined towards the north, with an erosional furrow 350 m long. The furrow was formed by a spring, flash floods, and possibly also due to anthropogenic involvement. A geomorphologically important site.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin, Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Quaternary - Quaternary of deposition areas of Bohemian Massif
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída, kenozoikum - kvartér
Subject: geomorphology
Geological phenomenon: selective erosion, erosion furrow
Genesis: aquatic (water activity), anthropogenic (anthropogenic activity)
Rock: opuka (aranaceous marlstone)

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: vegetation, others human activity

References

Knížetová L., Pecina P., Pivničková M., 1987: Prověrka maloplošných chráněných území a jejich návrhů ve Středočeském kraji v letech 1982 - 85.- Středisko památkové péče a ochrany přírody Středočeského kraje, Bohemia centralis, sv. 16, Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Knížetová Ludmila, 31.12.87
Updated by: Plíšek Antonín 16.08.05, Holásek Oldřich 09.10.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2509 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-28]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2509.

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