General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Mladá Boleslav
Cadastre: Dobšín
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0334, 03341
Geological region: Czech Cretaceous Basin - Labe & Čáslav Cretaceous; Cretaceous of the Dlouhá mez
Accessibility: - special entry permit necessary (military area, quarry, private land)
Technical object: sand pit
ID : 3319

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Summary of preliminary results of sedimentological analysis of fluvial deposits near Podkost and Kamenice. The base 305–311 m a.s.l. The accumulations consist mainly of coarse-grained sandy gravel and sand with trough cross bedding. These coarse subangular to rounded clasts of gravels content quartz, orthogneis, quartzite, graphitic phyllite and mica shist; all rock types derived from Krkonoše–Jizerské hory Mts.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Quaternary - Quaternary of deposition areas of Bohemian Massif
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - kvartér - pleistocén
Subject: sedimentology, quaternary geology
Geological phenomenon: bedding, permafrost wedge
Genesis: aquatic (water activity)
Rock: gravel-sand

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Interesting geological localities 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) - Český ráj
Part of the Geopark: Bohemian Paradise
Conflicts of interests: private property

References

Valečka, J., red. (2011): Základní geologická mapa České republiky 1 : 25 000 s Vysvětlivkami 03-341 Kněžmost. - Česká geologická služba. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Havlíček Pavel, 23.06.11

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3319 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-07]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3319.

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