General Characteristics

County (administration): Pardubice Region
District (town): Pardubice
Cadastre: Drozdice, Nemošice, Pardubičky
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1342, 13421
Geological region: Czech Cretaceous Basin - E-Bohemian and W-Moravian Cretaceous; Chrudim Cretaceous; Králíky Furrow; Police Basin
Accessibility: - passable footpath
ID : 105

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Natural outcrops of silicified calcareous claystones of the Rohatec Beds. Claystones contain rich fauna, mostly marine echinoids anbd pelecypods. This fauna evidences a Coniacian age. Stratigraphically and paleontologically important locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - coniak
Subject: paleontology, botany, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: fossils fauna, characteristic rock
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: claystone, marlstone

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

Zahálka, Č. (1918): Východočeský útvar křídový. Část jižní. Roudnice.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Čech Stanislav, 31.10.94
Updated by: Čech Stanislav 21.11.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 105 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-05]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/105.

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