General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Kutná Hora
Cadastre: Nová Lhota
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1332, 13324
Geological region: Czech Cretaceous Basin - Labe & Čáslav Cretaceous; Cretaceous of the Dlouhá mez
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
ID : 2512

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Two quarries exposing Cretaceous sandstones. A paleontologically important site of the Cretaceous faunas (oysters and rudist bivalves). Near this quarries the first dinosaur skeletal remains in Czech Republic as well as in Cenomanian deposits of the Central Europe were found. Some sandstone blocks from the two quarries were used as building stones for the construction of the cathedral Svatá Barbora (St. Barbara) in the Kutná Hora (Kutenberg City).
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - cenoman
Subject: paleontology, stratigraphy, zoology, history
Geological phenomenon: transgression, lithological boundary
Genesis: sedimentary, anthropogenic (anthropogenic activity)
Rock: sandstone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered geological localities suggested for protection
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: A - Protected Area (declared as Geological and Biological Locality)
Conflicts of interests: waste disposal, vegetation

References

Fejfar, O.,Košťák, M., Mazuch, M., Moučka, M.(2005): First dinosaur from Central Europe (Czech Republic).- Acta paleont. Polonica, 50,2, 295-300.; Knížetová L., Pecina P., Pivničková M., 1987: Prověrka maloplošných chráněných území a jejich návrhů v letech 1982 - 85.- Středisko památkové péče a ochrany přírody Středočeského kraje, Bohemia centralis, sv. 16, str. 109 - 110, Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Knížetová Ludmila, 31.12.87
Updated by: Plíšek Antonín 16.08.05, Čech Stanislav 07.11.09, Čech Stanislav 09.11.09, Kukal Zdeněk 26.02.18, Kukal Zdeněk 26.02.18

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2512 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-06]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2512.

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