General Characteristics

County (administration): Hradec Králové Region
District (town): Trutnov
Cadastre: Malé Svatoňovice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0433, 04331
Geological region: Permo-Carboniferous of the Krkonoše-piedmont and Lower Silesian basins
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: sand pit
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 1445

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned sand quarry in the wood at the settlement Dánsko, 2,2 km NW of the church in Malé Svatoňovice. Trutnov Formation (Permian, Saxonian), Korycany Member of the Peruc - Korycany Formation (Cretaceous, Cenomanian). Permian conglomerates and sandstones with pebbles of quartz, quartzite, andesitoite, metamorphic rocks etc. are unconformably overlain by Cretaceous quartzose sandstones. Well developed fossil weathering profile, approx. 3 m thick, is at the upper-most part of the Permian sequence, underlying immediately sandstones of Korycany Member. The dip of the strata is anomaly steep (75 - 80 to SW) due to the flexure at the present base of the Cretaceous.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Lugic Late Palaeozoicum (including Triassic deposits), Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - perm, mezozoikum - křída
Subject: stratigraphy, sedimentology, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: lithological boundary, unconformity, ichnofossil, rock, bedding, transgression, characteristic rock
Genesis: sedimentary, weathering
Rock: sandstone, conglomerate

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
Part of the Geopark: Broumovsko
Conflicts of interests: vegetation

References

Pešek J. et al. (2001): Geologie a ložiska svrchnopaleozoických limnických pánví České republiky. - Český geologický ústav, 243 s. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Prouza Vladimír, 15.01.03
Updated by: Prouza Vladimír 14.05.03, Šimůnek Zbyněk 24.09.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1445 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2023-12-04]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1445.

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