General Characteristics

County (administration): Hradec Králové Region
District (town): Náchod
Cadastre: Česká Čermná, Jestřebí nad Metují, Jizbice u Náchoda, Přibyslav nad Metují, Sendraž, Vrchoviny
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1411, 14112
Geological region: Orlice-Sněžník, Nové Město and Staré Město crystalline complexes
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 1567

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Nature reserve, geomorphologically interesting. Deeply cut valley affected by construction of road and building of bordere fortificatzions before the Second Great War. Tourist attraction.Series of outcrops in a Metuje River channel. Type locality of the Nové Město phyllite. Petrologically they consist of chloritic phyllites strongly foliated and crenulated.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Lugicum - Orlice-Sněžník crystalline complex, Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Lugicum - Magmatites of Lugicum
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum, variské (hercynské) stáří vyvřelin
Subject: geomorphology, botany, geology
Geological phenomenon: tor, scree field, frost cliff, block field, river channel
Genesis: aquatic (water activity), weathering
Rock: phyllite, granodiorite, gravel-sand

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature reserve
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 (geology is important aspect of Biological declared Locality )
Conflicts of interests: water resources, tourism

References

Faltysová H., Mackovčin P., Sedláček M a kol.(2002): Královéhradecko. In: Mackovčin P. a Sedláček M.(eds.): Chráněná území ČR, svazek V. Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR a EkoCentrum Brno, Praha str.169-171;Opletal et al./1980/: Geologie Orlických hor. ÚÚG Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Gürtlerová Pavla, 22.06.07
Updated by: Pecina Vratislav 02.06.11, Gürtlerová Pavla 19.08.11, Gürtlerová Pavla 11.11.11

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1567 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-26]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1567.

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