General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Nymburk
Cadastre: Lysá nad Labem
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1313, 13131
Geological region: Czech Cretaceous Basin - Labe & Čáslav Cretaceous; Cretaceous of the Dlouhá mez
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
ID : 2689

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Complex of abandoned quarries and cuts. Outcrops of siltstones up to fine grained sandstones with glaukonite. They show mural up to sheet jointing. Sandstones are bioturbated, fossil-bearing. Stratigraphically they belong to the Jizera Beds of lower part of Middle Turonian age.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - cenoman
Subject: paleontology, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: fossils fauna
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: siltstone, sandstone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: C - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a registration in the database of CGS
Conflicts of interests: vegetation

References

Holásek O. et al.(2005): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČR 1:25 000, list 13-131 Brandýs nad Labem, - MS, ČGS

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Holásek Oldřich, 25.01.07
Updated by: Kukal Zdeněk 15.02.18, Vajskebrová Markéta 19.05.20

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2689 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-06]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2689.

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