General Characteristics

County (administration): Hradec Králové Region
District (town): Náchod
Cadastre: Žďárky
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0433, 04334
Geological region: Permo-Carboniferous of the Krkonoše-piedmont and Lower Silesian basins
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: mine
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 306

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned coal mine. Exploited coal belongs stratigraphically to the Žacléř Formation (Duckmantean). Total number of coal seams was six, two of them were exploited. Historically and stratigraphically important locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Lugic Late Palaeozoicum (including Triassic deposits)
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - karbon
Subject: mining and mining impacts, paleontology, economic geology
Geological phenomenon: fossils-flora
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: claystone, coal

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: reclamation, open cast mining

References

Bílek J.(1965): Historie dolování kamenného uhlí na českém křídle vnitrosudetské pánve. - MS Geofond. Praha.; Středa J. et al.(1972): Ložisková studie vnitrosudetské pánve. - MS Geofond. Praha.; Tásler R. et al.(1979): Geologie české části vnitrosudetské pánve. - Ústř.úst.geol.Praha.; Tásler R. et al.(1963): Závěrečná zpráva o zákl.geol.výzkumu jz. křídla vnitrosudetské pánve. - MS Archív ČGÚ. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Tásler Radko, 31.12.94
Updated by: Prouza Vladimír 24.05.03, Šimůnek Zbyněk 24.09.09, Kukal Zdeněk 19.12.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 306 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-25]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/306.

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