General Characteristics

County (administration): Pardubice Region
District (town): Chrudim
Cadastre: Škrovád
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
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 113

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Group of abandoned quarries with quartzose sandstones of the Korycany Beds (Cenomanian). Sandstones contain kaolinite and glauconite and display blocky textures as curent bedding and fossil occurrences. Sedimentologically remarkable 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, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: fossils fauna, characteristic rock, ichnofossil
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: 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
Part of the Geopark: Železné hory
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Soukup, J.- Dvořák, J. (1962): Škrovád u Slatiňan. - Sjezdový průvodce 13.sjezdu ČSMG, 80-82. Praha. Zahálka, Č. (1918): Východočeský útvar křídový. Část jižní. Roudnice.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Čech Stanislav, 31.10.94

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 113 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-24]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/113.

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