General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Kolín
Cadastre: Chroustov, Vrbčany
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1314, 13143
Geological region: Kutná Hora and Čáslav crystalline complexes
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: guarry
ID : 79

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Old quarry after limestone exploitation. Outcrop of coarse-grained biodetrital limestones with conglomerate on their base. Upper Cenomanian age. Paleontologically and stratigraphically important locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - cenoman
Subject: stratigraphy, paleontology, botany, petrology
Geological phenomenon: fossils fauna
Genesis: sedimentary, chemogenetic
Rock: limestone, breccia

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

Ziegler, V. (1992): Stratigrafie a vrstevní sled křídových sedimentů v kolínské oblasti české křídové pánve. - Časopis Národního muzea, Řada přírodovědná, 160, 1/4, 29-46. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Ziegler Václav, 07.11.93
Updated by: Štědrá Veronika 23.09.10

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 79 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2023-12-04]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/79.

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