General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Beroun
Cadastre: Trněný Újezd
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1241, 12412
Geological region: Barrandien Palaeozoic; Blanice Furrow
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 196

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Complex of active and abandoned quarries. Whole sequence from the Lochkovian up to the Zlíchovian is exposed. Important facial changes can be observed, also some tectonic phenomena are visible.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - devon - spodní devon
Subject: stratigraphy, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: fossils fauna, deformation fabrics
Genesis: sedimentary, tectonic
Rock: limestone

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
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: reclamation

References

Chlupáč, I. (1955): Stratigrafická studie o nejstarších devonských vrstvách Barrandienu.- Sbor. Ústř. Úst. geol., odd. geol., 2, 21 (1954), 91-224. Praha. Svoboda, J. - Prantl, F. (1947): O stratigrafii a tektonice v okolí Třebotova. - Sbor. St. geol. Úst., 14, 281-324. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Chlupáč Ivo, 10.04.93

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 196 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/196.

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