General Characteristics

County (administration): Pardubice Region
District (town): Ústí nad Orlicí
Cadastre: Žampach
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1432, 14321
Geological region: Permo-Carboniferous and Tertiary of the Boskovice Ffurrow; Orlice Basin
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 3321

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Boskovice Graben, Permocarboniferous. Ill-sorted coarse grained sandstones and conglomerates contain several limestone interlayers, about 100 cm thick. They are interpreted as calcrete deposits formed in a vadose zone of flood plains in semiarid climate. Interesting example of Permian fluvial sediments and formation of pedogenic calcrete layers.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Late Palaeozoicum of furrows
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - perm
Subject: sedimentology, geomorphology, petrology
Geological phenomenon: incrustation
Genesis: chemogenetic, sedimentary
Rock: carbonate sedimentary rock, sandstone, conglomerate

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: without conflicts

References

Stárková, M. , Leichmann, J. (2008): Ocurrence and Genesis of the Calcrete in the Orlice Basin (Permocarboniferous).. In Pešek, Pešková: 11th Coal Geology Conference, Volume of Abstracts, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Stárková Marcela, 14.07.11
Updated by: Stárková Marcela 14.07.11, Gürtlerová Pavla 03.11.11, Kukal Zdeněk 30.10.12

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3321 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-19]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3321.

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