General Characteristics

County (administration): Plzeň Region
District (town): Plzeň-město
Cadastre: Plzeň
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1233, 12333
Geological region: Barrandian Proterozoic; Tisá and Čistá-Jesenice massifs
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
ID : 1169

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Natural outcrops exposing shales and siltstones of the Kralupy-Zbraslav Group of the Barrandian Proterozoic. They are overlain by Permocarboniferous sediments of Radnice Beds which belong to the Plzeň Basin. Geologically very interesting.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien, Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Central and Western Bohemian Late Palaeozoicum
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum, paleozoikum
Subject: sedimentology, stratigraphy, petrology
Geological phenomenon: cliff, transgression, bedding, characteristic rock
Genesis: sedimentary, metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: phyllite, siltstone, arkose, sandstone, conglomerate

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered geological localities suggested for protection
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts, vegetation

References

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

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Mašek Jan, 10.07.01
Updated by: Lorencová Markéta 25.01.05, Gürtlerová Pavla 01.09.10, Lojka Richard 23.10.10

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1169 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-04]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1169.

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