General Characteristics

County (administration): Capital City of Prague
District (town): Praha
Cadastre: Hlubočepy
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1224, 12243
Geological region: Prague agglomeration
Accessibility: - passable footpath
ID : 956

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Rocky hill with outcops of the Dvorce-Prokop Limestone of the Praha Formation (Devonian) and overlying lower parts of the Zlíchov Formation. In the road cut interesting example of tectonic disturbances can be also seen. This locality is registered and the whole area is candidate for establishment of the Geopark of Joachim Barrande.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: structural geology, petrology, stratigraphy, geomorphology
Geological phenomenon: fold, fault
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: limestone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: C - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a registration in the database of CGS
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: estates, road construction

References

Chlupáč, I. (1993): Geology of the Barrandian.- Senckenberg - Buch, 69, 1-163. Frankfurt am Main. Králík, F. et al. (1984): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČSSR 1:25 000, list 12-243, Praha - sever. Ústř. Úst. geol. 131 p. Praha. Woldřich, J. (1919): Das Prokopital südlich von Prag.- Jb. Geol. Reichsanst., 1918, 68 (1/2), 63-112. Wien.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Chlupáč Ivo, 03.10.94
Updated by: Kukal Zdeněk 21.12.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 956 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-07]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/956.

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