General Characteristics

County (administration): Hradec Králové Region
District (town): Náchod
Cadastre: Heřmánkovice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0431,0432, 04312,04321
Geological region: Permo-Carboniferous of the Krkonoše-piedmont and Lower Silesian basins
ID : 1841

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: The end of the Heřmánkovice valley. - Solifluction stream about 20 - 40 m wide and ca 700 m long. The stream in the valley of Heřmánkovice creek with blocks of tuffs of rhyolite complex barred the valley, so that the peat started to deposit behind.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Lugic Late Palaeozoicum (including Triassic deposits), Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Permocarboniferous Volcanits
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - perm
Subject: geology, geomorphology, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: deformation fabrics
Genesis: gravitational, glacigenic (glacier activity)
Rock: tuff

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. (1995): Revize lokalit geologického charakteru navrhovaných k ochraně v CHKO Broumovsko. ? MS. str.8. Archiv CHKO Broumovsko.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Plná Věra, 10.12.03
Updated by: Prouza Vladimír 22.03.04

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1841 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-25]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1841.

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