General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Nymburk
Cadastre: Kounice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1313, 13134
Geological region: Barrandien Palaeozoic; Blanice Furrow
Technical object: sand pit
ID : 1030

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Outcrops exposing tectonic boundary between the Upper Proterozoic and Permocarboniferous. Northernmost occurrence of the Permocaboniferous of the Blanice Graben in the Český Brod area. The sediments belong stratigraphically to Chýnov Beds of the Český Brod Formation.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien, Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Late Palaeozoicum of furrows
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - perm, proterozoikum
Subject: stratigraphy, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: stratigraphic boundary
Genesis: sedimentary, tectonic
Rock: greywacke, slate, schist, sandstone

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: without conflicts

References

Hejtman B. (1948); Holub V. (1972): Permian of the Bohemian massif. In: Rotliegend : essays on European Lower Permian. p. 137-188.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Holub Vlastimil, 15.11.94
Updated by: Gürtlerová Pavla 09.03.06, Kukal Zdeněk 29.11.17, Vajskebrová Markéta 27.11.20, Vajskebrová Markéta 11.05.21

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1030 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-20]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1030.

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