General Characteristics

County (administration): Plzeň Region
District (town): Plzeň-sever
Cadastre: Kaznějov, Lomnička u Plas
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1231, 12313
Geological region: Permo-Carboniferous and Tertiary of the Central Bohemian & Western Bohemian limnic regions
Accessibility: - special entry permit necessary (military area, quarry, private land)
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 2891

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Extended kaoline mine offers an unique opurtunity to study architectural framework and facies arrangement in generally braided-fluvial environment. Several clayey palaeosol horizons are exposed in the generally gravelly section.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Central and Western Bohemian Late Palaeozoicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - karbon
Subject: geology, sedimentology, economic geology, stratigraphy, mining and mining impacts
Geological phenomenon: araucarites, lithological boundary, stratotype, characteristic rock, erosion
Genesis: sedimentary, weathering
Rock: kaolin, gravel-sand, sandstone, conglomerate, claystone, siltstone, arkose

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered geological localities suggested for protection
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: open cast mining, reclamation

References

Lojka, R., red. (v tisku): Základní geologická mapa České republiky 1 : 25 000 s Vysvětlivkami 1 : 25 000 12-313 Kaznějov. Česká geologická služba. Praha.; Kužvart M. a kol.(1975): Vznik a stáří ložisek kaolínů v plzeňské pánvi.- Sbor. geol. Věd, ložisk. Geol., 17, 125-185, Praha.; Novák J. K. a kol.(2005): Kaolíny Kaznějov-jih.- MS, závěrečná zpráva, Geol. úst. AV ČR, 1-73, Praha.; Pešek J. a kol.(2001): Geologie a ložiska svrchnopaleozoických limnických pánví České republiky.- ČGÚ Praha, 243 s.; Prouza V. (2005): Contribution to the geology of the northern part of the Plzeň Basin and the southern part of the Carboniferous Žihle Basin.- Bulletin of Geosciences, 80, 1, 79–84, Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Lojka Richard, 15.10.08
Updated by: Gürtlerová Pavla 02.03.09, Vajskebrová Markéta 20.08.19

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2891 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-05]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2891.

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