General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Nymburk
Cadastre: Vlkov
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1314, 13142
Geological region: Czech Cretaceous Basin - Labe & Čáslav Cretaceous; Cretaceous of the Dlouhá mez
Accessibility: - access without footpath
Technical object: loam pit
ID : 987

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Flat elevating dominating the area. Exposures of calcareous claystones up to clayey limestones of the Teplice Formation overlain by Rohatec Beds of the Lower Coniacian age. Sedimentologically interesting locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - turon
Subject: sedimentology, petrology, paleontology, mineralogy
Geological phenomenon: fossils fauna
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: opuka (aranaceous marlstone), claystone, limestone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature monument
Additional information: See the Digital register of the Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic AOPK ČR
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: A - Protected Area (geology is important aspect of Biological declared Locality )
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Krutský N. et al.(1977): Slínovce české křídy. Závěrečná zpráva. Geofond P 29640

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Pražák Jiří, 23.10.95
Updated by: Gürtlerová Pavla 03.03.15

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 987 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-08]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/987.

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