General Characteristics

County (administration): Pardubice Region
District (town): Svitavy
Cadastre: Nedošín
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1431, 14314,14332
Geological region: Czech Cretaceous Basin - E-Bohemian and W-Moravian Cretaceous; Chrudim Cretaceous; Králíky Furrow; Police Basin
Accessibility: - passable footpath
ID : 1682

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: The Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. Upper Cretaceous calcareous and marlstones crop out on a slope. Along series of ground wate springs several dozens metres broad body of travertine has developed.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin, Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Quaternary - Quaternary of deposition areas of Bohemian Massif
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - coniak, kenozoikum - kvartér
Subject: geomorphology, quaternary geology
Geological phenomenon: spring, river source, incrustation
Genesis: chemogenetic
Rock: opuka (aranaceous marlstone), travertine

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature monument
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: without conflicts

References

Faltysová H., Bárta F. a kol. Pardubicko (2002):In: Mackovčin P., Sedláček M.(eds): Chráněná území ČR, Svazek IV. Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR a EkoCentrum Brno,str.165 Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Jirková Pavlína, 10.02.09
Updated by: Holásek Oldřich 09.10.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1682 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-04]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1682.

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