General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Praha-západ
Cadastre: Choteč
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1241, 12412
Geological region: Barrandien Palaeozoic; Blanice Furrow
Technical object: guarry
ID : 192

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Old quarry with exposed picritic basalt granulates overlain by the upper parts of the Třebotov Limestone section and also Choteč Limestone. It covers a stratigraphic interval from the upper Dalejan up to part of the Eifelian. Characteristic fauna together with some terrestric floral remains.
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, petrology
Geological phenomenon: fossils fauna, stratotype
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: limestone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registred geological localities suggested to protection in Protected landscape area
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Český kras
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: waste disposal

References

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. Kovanda, J. et al. (1984): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě 1:25 000, 12-412 Rudná. Ústř. Úst. geol., 1-122. Praha. 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: 192 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/192.

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