General Characteristics

County (administration): Plzeň Region
District (town): Plzeň-sever
Cadastre: Bukovec
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1233, 12333
Geological region: Barrandian Proterozoic; Tisá and Čistá-Jesenice massifs
Technical object: gravel pit
ID : 1155

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Active gravel pit exposing terrace sediments of a Middle Pleistocene age. Loamy gravel layer is 500 cm thick and rich in feldspars. Sedimentologically interesting, also imortant from the viewpoint of Quaternary stratigraphy.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Quaternary - Quaternary of deposition areas of Bohemian Massif
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - kvartér
Subject: stratigraphy, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: river terrace, fluvial terrace
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: gravel

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Mašek J. et al. (1993): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě 1:25000 list 12-333 Plzeň. - ČGÚ Praha

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Mašek Jan, 02.07.01

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1155 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1155.

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