General Characteristics

County (administration): Ústí nad Labem Region
District (town): Louny
Cadastre: Kystra
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1212, 12122
Geological region: Czech Cretaceous Basin - Velim, Praha, Roudnice and Ohře Cretaceous
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 51

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: A series of outcrops on the Ohře River bank. Exposures of Middle Turonian marlstones (V-IX), overlain by clayey limestones of the Xb beds with a coprolite layer. The stratotype of the Teplice Formation and a stratigraphically significant locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - turon
Subject: stratigraphy, sedimentology, archeology
Geological phenomenon: lithological boundary, stratotype
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: marlstone, limestone

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: vegetation

References

Čech, S. et al. (1980): Revision of the Upper Cretaceous stratigraphy of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. - Věst. Ústř. Úst. geol., 55, 5, 277-296. Praha. Frič, A. (1889): Studien im Gebite der böhmischen Kreideformation. Palaeontologische Untersuchungen der einzelnen Schichten. Die Teplitzer Schichten. - Arch. naturwiss. Landesdurchforsch. Böhm., VII., 2. Prag.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Zelenka Přemysl, 11.01.94
Updated by: Adamovič Jiří 17.02.07, Zelenka Přemysl 20.07.07, Zelenka Přemysl 16.09.09, Zelenka Přemysl 02.09.14

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 51 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-03]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/51.

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