General Characteristics

County (administration): Plzeň Region
District (town): Plzeň-sever
Cadastre: Potvorov, Odlezly
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1231, 12311
Geological region: Permo-Carboniferous and Tertiary of the Central Bohemian & Western Bohemian limnic regions
Accessibility: - entry permit for car necessary
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 1125

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Rocks and talus in a forest. Carboniferous sediments are present formed of subarkoses and arkoses with pebbly admixture. Current channel bedding is common. Natural rockslide dammed a natural water reservoir. Geomorphologically interesting locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Central and Western Bohemian Late Palaeozoicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - karbon - svrchní karbon - siles
Subject: geomorphology, sedimentology, geology, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: landslide, scree, cliff, lake, rock, bedding, slickenside, fault, characteristic rock
Genesis: gravitational, sedimentary
Rock: sandstone, arkose, conglomerate

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: National 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 and Biological Locality)
Conflicts of interests: forestry, ground instability

References

Vysvětlivky k zákl. geologické mapě list Plasy 1:50 000 - redaktor J. Mašek , karbon zpracoval V. Prouza; Janský Bohumír (1976): Mladotické hrazené jezero - Geomorfologie sesuvných území. - Acta Univ.Carol., Geogr.,11,1,3-18. Praha.; Janský Bohumír (1977): Mladotické hrazené jezero - Morfologické a hydrografické poměry. - Acta Univ.Carol., Geogr.,17,1,31-46. Praha; Janský, B. (1996): Mladotické jezero – jedinečný přírodní výtvor. Geografické rozhledy, 5(3), 87–88.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Prouza Vladimír, 26.03.01
Updated by: Prouza Vladimír 07.11.08, Lojka Richard 10.07.10, Vajskebrová Markéta 22.04.21

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1125 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-18]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1125.

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