General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Kutná Hora
Cadastre: Mezholezy
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1332, 13324
Geological region: Czech Cretaceous Basin - Labe & Čáslav Cretaceous; Cretaceous of the Dlouhá mez
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 87

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Old quarry with several types of bioclastic limestones. Several layers of a tempestite. Cenomanian and Turonian sediments are present with boundary beds between the two units. Stratigraphically and sedimentologically very important locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - cenoman
Subject: sedimentology, stratigraphy, petrology
Geological phenomenon: krast pit, selective erosion, transgression
Genesis: sedimentary, organogenic (activity of organisms)
Rock: limestone, gneiss

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered geological localities suggested for protection
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Conflicts of interests: waste disposal

References

Klein, V. (1962): Litologie a stratigrafie cenomanských organodetritických vápenců v západním okolí Kutné Hory. - Sbor. Ústř. Úst. geol., 27, 385-407. Praha. Macák, F. et al. (1968): The platform Cover of the Bohemian Massiv. Guide to Excursion 12AC Czechoslovakia. Internat. Geol. Congr., XXIII Ses. Prague. Praha. Nekvasilová, O. (1973): The brachiopod genus Bohemirhynchia gen.n. and Cyclothyris McCoy (Rhynchonellidae from the Upper Cretaceous of Bohemia. - Sbor. geol. Věd, Paleont., 15, 75-117. Praha. Žítt, J. (1986): Lilijice vybraných lokalit příbřežního vývoje české křídy. - MS Archiv Geol. úst. AV. ; Žítt, J. (v tisku): Nové poznatky o lilijicích příbřežního vývoje české křídy (kolínská litofaciální oblast). - Zpr. geol. Výzk., rok 1992. Praha.; Štědrá V. (ed., 2010): Geologická mapa 1:25 000 list 13324 Kutná Hora s vysvětlivkami. ČGS Praha

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Nekvasilová Olga, Klein Vladimír, 30.11.93
Updated by: Štědrá Veronika 17.06.10

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 87 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-23]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/87.

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