General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Beroun
Cadastre: Kozolupy, Bubovice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1241, 12412
Geological region: Barrandien Palaeozoic; Blanice Furrow
Accessibility: - access without footpath
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 194

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Large complex of open pit mines. The sequence from the Lower Lochkovian (Kotýz Limestone) through the complete sequence of Praha Formation (Koněprusy, Slivenec, Loděnice, Řeporyje, Dvorce-Prokop limestones) up to the Lower Zlíchovian is exposed.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: paleontology, stratigraphy, structural geology, geology, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: karst, fossils fauna, ichnofossil, karst cave
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: reclamation

References

Chlupáč, I. (1957): Faciální vývoj a biostratigrafie středočeského spodního devonu.- Sbor. Ústř. Úst. geol., odd.geol., 23 (1956), 369-485. Praha. Chlupáč, I. (1990): Structure and enviroment of the ichnofossils Zoophycops in the Lower Devonian of Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. - Čas. Min. Geol., 35, 373-387. 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.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Chlupáč Ivo, 09.04.93
Updated by: Steinová Marika 23.11.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 194 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/194.

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