General Characteristics

County (administration): Pardubice Region
District (town): Chrudim
Cadastre: Skutíčko
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1344, 13442
Geological region: Czech Cretaceous Basin - E-Bohemian and W-Moravian Cretaceous; Chrudim Cretaceous; Králíky Furrow; Police Basin
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 3650

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: This locality represents deeply weathered outcrops of the Cretaceous sandstones of nearly total thickness of the Peruc-Korycany Formation (Cenomanian). Its sediments consist of quartzose sandstones, clayey sandstones also with glaukonite up to coaliferous claystones. Small relics of adits expose some occurrences of amber (Some amber pieces are exhibited in the Skuteč Museum). Also small traces of Cretaceous coal mining are preserved in surrounding forests. 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: geology, paleontology, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: fossils-flora
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: sandstone, claystone

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, 08.02.13
Updated by: Rambousek Petr 14.10.13, Kukal Zdeněk 21.09.17, Krejčí Zuzana 26.09.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3650 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-26]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3650.

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