General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Beroun
Cadastre: Skryje nad Berounkou
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1232, 12323
Geological region: Barrandien Palaeozoic; Blanice Furrow
Accessibility: - entry permit for car necessary
Technical object: guarry
ID : 3769

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Small, abandoned quarry where ryolite lava was mined. Today, exposed wall is dangerous due to rock fall.Close to the locality, exposed fault bears the Furong ryolites against metasediments of Proterozoic age. Fault can be seen SE of the quarry, in the Úpořský potok bed.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Letovice crystalline complex
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - kambrium - svrchní kambrium
Subject: geology, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: cliff, fault, lava
Genesis: volcanic
Rock: rhyolite

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) - Křivoklátsko
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Vorel T. et.al. (2014): Vysvětlivky k Základní geologické mapě list 12-323 Podmokly. - MS Archív ČGS Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Hradecký Petr, 03.04.14

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3769 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-28]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3769.

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