General Characteristics

County (administration): Hradec Králové Region
District (town): Náchod
Cadastre: Libná
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0431, 04311
Geological region: Czech Cretaceous Basin - E-Bohemian and W-Moravian Cretaceous; Chrudim Cretaceous; Králíky Furrow; Police Basin
Technical object: guarry
ID : 1496

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned quarries on the right stream bank at the site of the former village of Libná near Teplice nad Metují. Quarry walls show most of the section of the Korycany Member (Cenomanian): medium-grained glauconitic sandstones at the base, followed by clayey-silty sandstones with common trace fossils, and by dark grey calcareous siltstones evidencing anoxic environment. Bohemian Cretaceous Basin.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - cenoman
Subject: geology, sedimentology, paleontology

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Interesting geological localities in Protected landscape area
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Broumovsko
Part of the Geopark: Broumovsko
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Ziegler V.,(1993): Hodnocení lokalit na území CHKO Broumovsko. MS. Archiv CHKO Broumovsko.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Plná Věra, 14.10.03
Updated by: Čech Stanislav 17.12.04

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1496 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-04]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1496.

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