Rockfalls below Malá Buková

The huge sandstone boulders scattered in the pine forest suggest that something great took place here. A large number of fossils, mostly shell impressions, can be found on the fallen boulders from the rockfall. There are also smaller tubes in the rocks that resemble petrified branches. These are ichnofossils – remnants of organic activity. These findings take us back in time 90 million years, when the area was covered by a shallow Mesozoic Upper Cretaceous sea inhabited by urchins, bivalves, gastropods or ammonites. It is also an age when giant dinosaurs lived on land and large lizards (plesiosaurs) ruled the sea. Looking at the collapsed boulders makes it easier to realise how fragile sandstone really is. Take extra care when moving under the rock.