General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Praha-západ
Cadastre: Okoř
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1223, 12232
Geological region: Barrandian Proterozoic; Tisá and Čistá-Jesenice massifs
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
ID : 1097

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Ridge with many outcrops of the Upper Proteorozoic rocks, mainly phyllitized greywackes, silstones and shales. Parallel orientation of clasts and cleavage planes. Petrologically important, rocks exhibit initial stages of regional metamorphosis.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum
Subject: petrology, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: cliff
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: phyllite, slate, schist

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
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Zoubek J. in Mašek J. et al. (1990): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČSSR 1:25000, 12-232 Buštěhrad. ÚÚG Praha

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Mašek Jan, 15.02.01
Updated by: Žáčková Eliška 02.09.10

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1097 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1097.

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