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The Berounka River within a canyon-like valley incised in Barrandien limestones, the Bohemian Karst Protected Landscape Area.
Photo: Jirí Rudolský



Morning mists in the Svratka River valley at the tectonic contact between the Precambrian orthogneiss, migmatite, and paragneiss complexes, Horni Svratka Uplands.
Photo: Pavel Hanžl



Spring in the eastern foothills of the Hruby Jesenik Mts., with the Pleistocene Velka Kotlina glacial cirque in Devonian graphitic phyllites (Protected Landscape Area Jeseníky).
Photo: Libor Malý



The main range of the Hrubý Jeseník Mts. built up from Precambrian and Devonian rocks (Protected Landscape Area Jeseníky).
Photo: Jaroslav Aichler



Mr. and Mrs. Mayor, picturesque sandstone towers
in the Cretaceous Adrspach Rocks.
Photo: Vojtech Janoušek



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Excellent columnar jointing of basalt at Panska Skala Mt.
(Lordly Rock), a Protected Natural Monument since 1953.
Photo: Jirí Rudolský

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Velka Kotlina glacial cirque and Hrubý Jeseník Mts.Svratka River valleyMr. and Mrs. MayorPanska Skala MtBerounka River