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General Characteristics

County (administration): Pardubice Region
District (town): Svitavy
Cadastre: Mladějov na Moravě, Nová Ves u Moravské Třebové
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1434, 14342
Geological region: Czech Cretaceous Basin - E-Bohemian and W-Moravian Cretaceous; Chrudim Cretaceous; Králíky Furrow; Police Basin
Accessibility: - passable footpath
ID : 1746

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: This locality belongs to the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. It is of a cuesta form with outcrops on its front slope. The abandoned quarry wall also exposes the Upper Cretaceous sediments of the Jizera Beds (Turonian age). The fine grained sandstones, spongiolites and "opukas" prevail in the section Also cherts are present. Along the slope foot glauconitic sandstones of the Peruc-Korycany Beds (Cenomanian) occur. Traces of former quarrying of refraktory clays are numerous.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - turon
Subject: geology, economic geology, geomorphology
Geological phenomenon: cuesta, rock, characteristic rock
Genesis: sedimentary, anthropogenic (anthropogenic activity)
Rock: opuka (aranaceous marlstone), sandstone, claystone

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. 168 Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Jirková Pavlína, 11.02.09
Updated by: Čech Stanislav 21.11.09, Kukal Zdeněk 08.09.17, Kukal Zdeněk 08.09.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1746 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-03-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1746.

Location in map:

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Typická kuesta (asymetrický hřbet) s mírným sklonem k jihozápadu a příkrým skalnatým svahem na čele vrstev., Jan Vítek, 2009


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