General Characteristics

County (administration): Capital City of Prague
District (town): Praha
Cadastre: Horní Počernice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1224, 12244
Geological region: Prague agglomeration
Accessibility: - entry permit for car necessary
Technical object: guarry
ID : 215

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned quarry exposing a reference section of the Peruc-Korycany beds. Contact between a fresh-water and marine Cenomanian is exposed. Sandstones display common planar cross bedding. Sedimentologically important locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - cenoman
Subject: stratigraphy, sedimentology, geology, lithology
Geological phenomenon: bed, lithological boundary
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: claystone, sandstone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature monument
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: A - Protected Area: (declared as Geological locality)
Conflicts of interests: vegetation

References

Čech, S., Klein, V., Kříž, J. a Valečka, J. (1980): Revison of the Upper Cretaceous stratigraphy of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. - Věst. Ústř. Úst. geol., 55 (6), 277-296. Praha; Ziegler, V. (1992): Inventarizační průzkum přírodní památky Chvalský lom - geologie, MS, 5 str.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Zelenka Přemysl, 04.10.93
Updated by: Steinová Marika 16.09.09, Vajskebrová Markéta 29.11.21

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 215 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2023-12-04]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/215.

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