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: sand pit
ID : 2690

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Sand pit with a fluvial terrace of the Jizera (Iser) River. Terrace sediments consist of gravel with semirounded pebbles, mainly of quartz, phyllites, mica schists, Permian rocks and volcanics. Jaspers, agates, chalcedony from melaphyres and surrounding area of the Orlice Mountains.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Quaternary - Quaternary of deposition areas of Bohemian Massif
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - kvartér
Subject: sedimentology, lithology
Geological phenomenon: river terrace, fluvial terrace
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: gravel

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: reclamation, waste disposal

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: 2690 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-28]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2690.

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