General Characteristics

County (administration): Capital City of Prague
District (town): Praha
Cadastre: Hloubětín
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1224, 12244
Geological region: Prague agglomeration
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 213

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Old brickyard exposing a complete section of the Peruc Formation. Also an angular unconformity on its base is exposed. Several layers with flora remains and many types of sedimentary textures in sandstones. Sedimentologically important locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - cenoman
Subject: geology, stratigraphy, paleontology, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: fossils fauna, fossils-flora, bed
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: claystone, sandstone, coal, slate, schist

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 (declared as Geological Locality)
Conflicts of interests: vegetation

References

Straka, J. et al. (1987): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě 1:25 000, 12-244, Praha-východ. - Ústř. Úst. geol., 1-72. Praha. Přehled starších výzkumů Straka et al. (1987); Hluštík (1974); Bouška, Havlena, Šulcek (1963); Rolich (1958); Vachtlem (1962); Nádaskay, R. (2021): Mid-Cretaceous transgressions on the northern edge of Prague: Guidebook to field trip FT12, 35th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, June 21-25, 2021, Prague, Czech Republic, 17 pp. (online)

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Zelenka Přemysl, 04.10.93
Updated by: Steinová Marika 09.09.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 213 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-30]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/213.

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