General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Kutná Hora
Cadastre: Kutná Hora
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1332, 13324
Geological region: Czech Cretaceous Basin - Labe & Čáslav Cretaceous; Cretaceous of the Dlouhá mez
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 3190

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Cross-bedded calcaleous sandstones of the Vyšata Quarry - an unusual lithofacies (called of the Kolín Development) of the Turonian sediments of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin, Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Kutná Hora and Svratka region - Kutná Hora crystalline complex
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - cenoman, proterozoikum
Subject: history, paleontology, petrology, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: bed, bedding, transgression, horizontal section, characteristic rock
Genesis: sedimentary, anthropogenic (anthropogenic activity), organogenic (activity of organisms)
Rock: sandstone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered geological localities suggested for protection
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Conflicts of interests: estates, reclamation

References

Rybařík (1987), Hradecká (2007), Švábenická (2007)`viz Štědrá V. ed. (2010): Základní geologická mapa ČR 1 : 25 000, list 13-324 Kutná Hora s Vysvětlivkami. ČGS Praha

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Štědrá Veronika, 17.06.10
Updated by: Čech Stanislav 20.06.10

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3190 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-04]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3190.

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