General Characteristics

County (administration): Plzeň Region
District (town): Plzeň-jih
Cadastre: Dobřany
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2122, 21222
Geological region: Permo-Carboniferous and Tertiary of the Central Bohemian & Western Bohemian limnic regions
Technical object: guarry
ID : 1120

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Small abandoned quarries. Outcrops of coase-grained partly kaolinized arkoses and subarkoses with conglomerates and quartzose sandstones. In the siltstones fossil flora was found. Also distinct wash-ous in coarse-grained arkoses.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Central and Western Bohemian Late Palaeozoicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - karbon
Subject: sedimentology, paleontology, stratigraphy

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: waste disposal, vegetation

References

Pešek J.-Spudil J. (1972):Základní geol. mapa ČSSR 1: 25 000 list Nýřany. Stárková et.al.(v tisku): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě list 21-222 Dobřany. Čes. geol. úst. Praha

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Drábková Jana, Stárková Marcela, Šimůnek Zbyněk, 06.03.01
Updated by: Plíšek Antonín 22.02.05

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1120 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-03]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1120.

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