General Characteristics

County (administration): Hradec Králové Region
District (town): Rychnov nad Kněžnou
Cadastre: Bartošovice v Orlických horách
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1414, 14142
Geological region: Czech Cretaceous Basin - E-Bohemian and W-Moravian Cretaceous; Chrudim Cretaceous; Králíky Furrow; Police Basin
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: sand pit
ID : 3329

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. Abandoned sand pit exposing Cretaceous sediments overlying crystalline basement - evidence of the Cretaceous transgression. Bedrock consists of biotite paragneisses of the Orlice-Sněžník crystalline. Transgressive Cretaceous marine sandstones are of the Cenomanian age. These sandstones are fossiliferous with numerous representatives of invertebrates. This quarry is strongly vegetated and partly covered by a scree.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - cenoman
Subject: paleontology, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: transgression, fossils fauna
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: sandstone, sand

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, ground instability

References

VAVŘÍNOVÁ M. (1940): Lomy Čech a Moravy - okres Žamberk. ČGS. Praha, POKORNÝ R. (2008): Funalichnus, a New Ichnogenus and its Type Ichnospecies Funalichnus strangulatus (Fritsch, 1883), Upper Cretaceous of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czech Republic. Ichnos, 15(2):51-58. POKORNÝ R., BAŽANT Z. (in press): Ichnologický průzkum svrchnokřídových sedimentů v okolí Bartošovic v Orl. horách (okres Rychnov nad Kněžnou). Acta Musei Richnoviensis, Sect. Natur.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Gürtlerová Pavla, 24.08.11
Updated by: Pokorný Richard 05.09.11, Kukal Zdeněk 23.10.12

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3329 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2023-12-04]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3329.

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