General Characteristics

County (administration): Pardubice Region
District (town): Pardubice
Cadastre: Přelouč
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: - passable footpath
ID : 4227

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: In the outcrop, marlstone of the Jizera Formation is exposed. Inside of the marlstone, there is glauconitic bed with erosive base, containing numerous trace fossils. This marker bed divides Jizera Formation to the lower (middle Turonia) and upper (upper Turonian) parts. Numerous fossils of brachiopods (Gyrosoria) are found in the marlstone.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - turon
Subject: stratigraphy, structural geology, paleontology, lithology, geology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock, lithological boundary, ichnofossil
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: marlstone, siltstone, phosphorite, glauconitite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: A - Protected Area (geology is important aspect of Biological declared Locality )
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Čech et al. 2020: Vysvětlivky ke geologické mapě 1: 25 000, list 13-412 Přelouč, ČGS.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Vajskebrová Markéta, 21.09.20
Updated by: Čech Stanislav 13.03.21

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 4227 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/4227.

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