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: - passable footpath
ID : 3192

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: The Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. Geologically important outcrop on a slope of a riverlet Vrchlice in the Kutná Hora Town.Horizontally layered sandstones of Korycany Beds with quartz and limestone pebbles. Locally oblique bedding can be observed. Lenses of glauconiitic sandstone, partly strongly weathered. Different genera of sponges are found and described,
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: sedimentology, paleontology
Geological phenomenon: transgression, unconformity, fossils fauna, characteristic rock
Genesis: sedimentary, 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: vegetation

References

Štědrá 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

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3192 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-19]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3192.

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