General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Praha-západ
Cadastre: Chýnice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1241, 12412
Geological region: Barrandien Palaeozoic; Blanice Furrow
Technical object: guarry
ID : 190

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Significant stratigraphic section from the Zlíchovian up to the Eifelian. Kačák event horizon was also exposed. Important old paleontological localities known from Barrande´s time, later reevaluated.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - devon - spodní devon, paleozoikum - devon - střední devon
Subject: stratigraphy, paleontology, lithology
Geological phenomenon: fossils fauna
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: limestone

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: without conflicts

References

Fiala F. 1970: Silurské a devonské diabasy Barrandienu.- Sbor. geol. Věd, Geol., G, 17:7-89. Praha. Chlupáč, I. (1959): Faciální vývoj a biostratigrafie břidlic dalejských a vápenců hlubočepských (eifel) ve středočeském devonu.- Sbor. Ústř. Úst. geol., odd. geol., 25 (1958), 445-511. Praha. Chlupáč, I. (1960): Stratigrafická studie o vrstvách srbských (givet) ve středočeském devonu.- Sbor. Ústř. Úst. geol., odd. geol., 26 (1959), 143-185. Praha. Chlupáč, I. (1983): Stratigraphical position of Barrande's paleontological localities in the Devonian of Central Bohemia.- Čas. Min. Geol., 23 (3), 261-275. Praha. Chlupáč, I., Lukeš, P. a Zikmundová, J. (1979): The Lower/Middle Devonian boundary beds in the Barrandian area, Czechoslovakia. - Geologica et Palaeont., 13, 125-156. Marburg. Klapper, G., Ziegler, W. a Mashkova, T. V. 1978: Conodonts and correlation of Lower-Middle Devonian boundary beds in the Barrandian area of Czechoslovakia.- Geologica et Palaeontologica, 12:103-116. Marburg. Svoboda, J. a Prantl, F. (1948): O stratigrafii a tektonice staršího paleozoika v okolí Chýnice.- Sbor. St. geol. Úst. Čs. Republ., 15, 1-39. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Chlupáč Ivo, 12.04.93

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 190 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/190.

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