General Characteristics

County (administration): Pardubice Region
District (town): Chrudim
Cadastre: Rabštejnská Lhota
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1342, 13423
Geological region: Czech Cretaceous Basin - E-Bohemian and W-Moravian Cretaceous; Chrudim Cretaceous; Králíky Furrow; Police Basin
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 112

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned quarry exposing a transgressive setting of marine Cretaceous sediments on the Ordovcician quartzites of the Chrudimn Paleozoic. Basal Cretaceous sediments belong to the Korycany Beds (Cenomanian) and consist of boulder conglomerate. In their matrix fossils occur. Sedimentologically interesting locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - cenoman
Subject: sedimentology, paleontology, stratigraphy
Geological phenomenon: lithological boundary, transgression, characteristic rock
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: quartzite, conglomerate, sandstone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature monument in Protected landscape area
Additional information: See the Digital register of the Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic AOPK ČR
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: A - Protected Area (declared as Geological Locality)
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Železné hory
Part of the Geopark: Železné hory
Conflicts of interests: waste disposal

References

Vodička, J. - Soukup, J. - Dvořák, J. (1962): Rabštejnská Lhota u Chrudimě. - Sjezdový průvodce 13. sjezdu ČSMG. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Čech Stanislav, 31.10.94
Updated by: Čech Stanislav 21.11.09, Vajskebrová Markéta 01.11.16

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 112 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-25]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/112.

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