General Characteristics

County (administration): Hradec Králové Region
District (town): Náchod
Cadastre: Lachov
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0431, 04314
Geological region: Czech Cretaceous Basin - E-Bohemian and W-Moravian Cretaceous; Chrudim Cretaceous; Králíky Furrow; Police Basin
Accessibility: - passable footpath
ID : 1879

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: A hill in the Police Basin NNW of Ostaš Hill, formed by sandstones of Upper Turonian to Coniacian age. The network of joints dissects the hill into a system of ridges and pillars separated by dry gorges, with many examples of surface and subsurface pseudokarst landforms.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - turon
Subject: geomorphology, geology, structural geology, botany
Geological phenomenon: rock bag, rock chimney, rock schelter, cliff, pseudocrast cave
Genesis: sedimentary, organogenic (activity of organisms)
Rock: sandstone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registred geological localities suggested to protection in Protected landscape area
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Broumovsko
Part of the Geopark: Broumovsko
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Vítek J. (1986): Geomorfologie navrhovaná chráněné krajinné oblasti Broumovsko. - MS. str.68 + 35 příloh. Archiv CHKO Broumovsko. Police nad Metují.; Archiv Správy CHKO Broumovsko - evidované lokality; Čech, S., Gawlikowska, E. (1999): Góry Stolowe, Adršpašsko-teplické skály. Geologická mapa pro turisty. 1:50 000.- Państwowy Instytut Geologiczny-Český geologický ústav. Warszawa-Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Plná Věra, 27.01.04
Updated by: Gürtlerová Pavla 17.11.09, Čech Stanislav 21.11.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1879 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2023-12-08]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1879.

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