General Characteristics

County (administration): Pardubice Region
District (town): Chrudim
Cadastre: Raškovice u Přelouče
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1341, 13412
Geological region: Oheb, Svratka and Polička crystalline complex; Železné hory Mts. Proterozoic; Hlinsko Zone; Železné hory Mts. Pluton; Chrudim Palaeozoic
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 3594

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: This locality embraces several old abandoned quarries where quartzites were exploited utilized also for grinders (millstones) production. Quartzites also represented useful building materials. The educational trail was arranged in this area in order to follow the history of stone exploiting. The quartzites, conglomerates and siltstones belong to the Lipoltice Formation of the Lower Ordovician age. 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 - spodní ordovik
Subject: mining and mining impacts, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: outcrop
Genesis: sedimentary
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: without conflicts

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: 3594 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-03]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3594.

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