General Characteristics

County (administration): Hradec Králové Region
District (town): Náchod
Cadastre: Rožmitál
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0432, 04323
Geological region: Permo-Carboniferous of the Krkonoše-piedmont and Lower Silesian basins
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 1825

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: About 100 m long rocky autcrop at the field road at a barn at the lower margin of Rožmitál village. Mostly greenish grey calcareous mudstones and claystones of the Vižňov Horizon of the Martínkovice Member (Broumov Formation). They are underlied by reddish mudstone. Sediments are considered to be of lacustrine origin.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Lugic Late Palaeozoicum (including Triassic deposits)
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - perm
Subject: geology, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: claystone, siltstone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Interesting geological localities in Protected landscape area
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: C - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a registration in the database of CGS
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Broumovsko
Part of the Geopark: Broumovsko
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Tásler R. (1994): Revize geologických lokalit na Broumovsku navrhovaných k ochraně. ? MS. str. 7. Archiv CHKO Broumovsko. Police nad Metují.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Plná Věra, 10.12.03
Updated by: Prouza Vladimír 19.03.04, Gürtlerová Pavla 28.05.19

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1825 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-19]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1825.

Location in map: