General Characteristics

County (administration): Pardubice Region
District (town): Chrudim
Cadastre: Smrkový Týnec
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1342, 13423
Geological region: Oheb, Svratka and Polička crystalline complex; Železné hory Mts. Proterozoic; Hlinsko Zone; Železné hory Mts. Pluton; Chrudim Palaeozoic
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 3593

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: The series of rocky outcrops in forested area with ruins of castle Rabštejn. In this locality light quartzites prevail being accompanied by schists and siltstones. All the sediments are slightly metamorphosed. In quartzites numerous ichnofossils were found. Some parts of rocks suffered frost weathering and so vast stone fields rim the outcrop foot. The section is of Middle Ordovician age, the quartzites are stratigraphically correlated with Barrandian Skalka Formation. The locality belongs to the National Geopark "Železné hory - the Iron Mts,"!.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Chrudim Early Palaeozoic
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - ordovik - střední ordovik
Subject: geomorphology, paleontology
Geological phenomenon: gully, horizontal section, block field
Genesis: sedimentary, weathering
Rock: quartzite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: C - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a registration in the database of CGS
Part of the Geopark: Železné hory
Conflicts of interests: forestry

References

DOUCEK, Jan (2012): Národní Geopark Železné hory - mapování. Závěrečná zpráva, MS Vodní zdroje Chrudim, spol. s r. o.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Králová Anna, 29.10.12
Updated by: Kukal Zdeněk 12.09.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3593 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-02]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3593.

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