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: - access without footpath
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 108

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Railway cut exposing one of the flanks of the Choceň flexure. Sediments consist of sandstones of the Jizera Formation (Turonian). Tectonically interesting, also sedimentologically important locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - turon
Subject: structural geology, geology
Geological phenomenon: horizontal section
Genesis: tectonic, sedimentary
Rock: sandstone, opuka (aranaceous marlstone)

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: without conflicts, road construction

References

Coubal, M. (l988): Projevy saxonské tektogeneze

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Čech Stanislav, 31.10.94
Updated by: Čech Stanislav 12.11.09, Gürtlerová Pavla 17.10.12

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 108 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2023-12-04]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/108.

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