General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Praha-západ
Cadastre: Máslovice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1224, 12241
Geological region: Barrandian Proterozoic; Tisá and Čistá-Jesenice massifs
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
ID : 928

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned quarry exposing mostly greywackes with laminated siltstones, black shales and some silicites (lydites) of the Barrandian Upper Proterozoic. The strata are gently folded, sediments are slightly metamorphosed.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum
Subject: stratigraphy, sedimentology, petrology
Geological phenomenon: stratotype
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: greywacke, slate, schist, siltstone, silicite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered geological localities suggested for protection
Additional information: See the Digital register of the Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic AOPK ČR
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Conflicts of interests: waste disposal, vegetation

References

Chlupáč J.(1999): Vycházky za geologickou minulostí Prahy a okolí. - Academia Praha. Mašek J. - Zoubek J. (1980): Návrh vymezení a označování hlavních stratigrafických jednotek barrandienského proterozoika. - Věst. Ústř. Úst. geol. 55, 2, 121-123. Praha; Fediuk F. - Chalupný V., l998: Geologický a vlastivědný výlet do pravobřežního dolního Povltaví.- Exkurze ČGSpolečnosti č. 2, str. 2l, ČGÚ Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Mašek Jan, 10.10.94
Updated by: Vajskebrová Markéta 21.11.22

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 928 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/928.

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