General Characteristics

County (administration): Pardubice Region
District (town): Chrudim
Cadastre: Smrček u Žumberka
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1342, 13424
Geological region: Czech Cretaceous Basin - E-Bohemian and W-Moravian Cretaceous; Chrudim Cretaceous; Králíky Furrow; Police Basin
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: guarry
ID : 3611

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: This locality occurs at a southern margin of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. The old quarry exposes sediments of the Peruc-Korycany Formation (Cenomanian). The sediments are represented by calcareous sandstones, coarse grained glauconitic sandstones and clayey sandstones with shed coal. Some sedimentary layers are rich in ichnofossils. This locality belongs to the National Geopark "Železné hory - the Iron Mountains".
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - cenoman
Subject: paleontology, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: cliff, bed, bedding, ichnofossil
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: sandstone

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, 02.11.12
Updated by: Kukal Zdeněk 21.09.17, Kukal Zdeněk 26.09.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3611 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-27]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3611.

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