General Characteristics

County (administration): Hradec Králové Region
District (town): Náchod
Cadastre: Otovice u Broumova
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)
ID : 2219

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Rocky outcrop in a ravine of Černý potok (creek) and its left tributory near Otovice village. The sequence of Upper Olivětín Member (Broumov Formation) in a facies of Walchia Mudstone: dark grey mudstone to claystone with remnants of Walchia sp., a bank of bituminous limestone (the Otovice Limestone Horizon, Olivětín Member, Broumov Formation) with remnants of fossil fish, probably Paramblypterus sp. and ferns of Autunia (Callipteris) conferta type.
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: sedimentology, paleontology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock, fossils-flora
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: claystone

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

Štamberg S.(1992): Seznam paleontologických lokalit permského útvaru Broumovské kotliny v území CHKO Broumovsko. - MS. oborový dokument. Archiv CHKO Broumovsko. Police nad Metují.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Plná Věra, 17.05.04
Updated by: Prouza Vladimír 12.04.04, Gürtlerová Pavla 28.05.19

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2219 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-02]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2219.

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