General Characteristics

County (administration): Hradec Králové Region
District (town): Trutnov
Cadastre: Janovice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0431, 04313
Geological region: Czech Cretaceous Basin - E-Bohemian and W-Moravian Cretaceous; Chrudim Cretaceous; Králíky Furrow; Police Basin
Accessibility: - access without footpath
Technical object: sand pit
ID : 310

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned quarry and sand pit. Outcrops of sandstones of the Korycany Beds (Upper Cretaceous, Cenomanian). Also geomorphologically interesting, because retrograde erosion of the stream resulted in formation of rapids.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - cenoman
Subject: stratigraphy, geology, geomorphology, petrology
Geological phenomenon: river channel, bed
Genesis: aquatic (water activity)
Rock: sandstone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registred geological localities suggested to protection 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: road construction

References

Holub V., Prouza V., Tásler R., Valín F.(1969): Geologie a litologie saxonu, thuringu a sp.triasu v sv.Čechách. - MS Geofond. Praha.; Tásler R. et al.(1979): Geologie české části vnitrosudetské pánve. - Ústř.úst.geol. Praha.; List Teplice n/Metují 610-1000 (Křovákova projekce) s dokumentací. - MS Geofond. Praha.; Průvodce k exkurzím Sympozia o stratigrafii karbonu v r.1977. - MS Archív ČGÚ. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Tásler Radko, 31.12.94
Updated by: Prouza Vladimír 21.05.03, Kukal Zdeněk 09.10.12

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 310 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-02]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/310.

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