General Characteristics

County (administration): Pardubice Region
District (town): Ústí nad Orlicí
Cadastre: Brandýs nad Orlicí, Hemže, Mostek nad Orlicí, Zářecká Lhota
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1431, 14312
Geological region: Czech Cretaceous Basin - E-Bohemian and W-Moravian Cretaceous; Chrudim Cretaceous; Králíky Furrow; Police Basin
Accessibility: - passable footpath
ID : 1807

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Rocky slope above the Tichá Orlice River valley. Numerous outcrops of the Upper Cretaceous sandstones (called also "opuka", the Jizera Beds, Upper Turonian), calcareous marlstones and siltstones. Remarkable geomorphological features. Rock pillars, ravines and pseudokarst caverns occur. The locality is classified as Natural Reserve and is situated in the Nature Park Orlice.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - turon
Subject: geomorphology, geology
Geological phenomenon: erosion furrow, rock bag, monadnok, rock pillar
Genesis: aquatic (water activity), aeolian (wind activity), sedimentary, weathering
Rock: opuka (aranaceous marlstone)

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 (declared as Geological and Biological 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.196 Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Jirková Pavlína, 12.02.09
Updated by: Čech Stanislav 12.11.09, Kukal Zdeněk 22.02.18

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1807 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-03]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1807.

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