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: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 106

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Orlice River bank with series of oucrps of Cretaceous sediments, also in the railway cut. Sediments of the Rohatec Beds (Coniacian) are present, represented mostly by siliceous calcareous claystones. Due to rch fauna this locality was selected as a type locality of the Rohatec Beds.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - coniak
Subject: paleontology, stratigraphy, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: claystone, 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

References

Čech, S. - Klein, V. - Kříž, J. a Valečka, J. (1980): Revison of the Upper Cretaceous stratigraphy of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. - Věst. Ústř. Úst. geol., 55 (6), 277-296. Praha. Frič, A. (1894): Studie v oboru křídového útvaru v Čechách. V. Březenské vrstvy. - Archiv pro přírodovědecké prozkoumání Čech. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

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

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 106 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-25]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/106.

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