General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Rakovník
Cadastre: Branov
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1232, 12322
Geological region: Barrandien Palaeozoic; Blanice Furrow
Accessibility: - access without footpath
ID : 154

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Rocky hill consisting of dacite, rhyodacite and dacite tuff. Southern cliff with a thick talus was formed by a glacial erosion. Interesting geomorphology together with floral and faunal phenomena.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - kambrium - svrchní kambrium
Subject: geomorphology, petrology, quaternary geology
Geological phenomenon: frost cliff, scree field, characteristic rock
Genesis: volcanic
Rock: ignimbrite, rhyolite, dacite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature reserve in Protected landscape area
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 (geology is important aspect of Biological declared Locality )
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Křivoklátsko
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Knížetová, L. - Pecina, P. - Pivničková, M. (1987): Prověrka maloplošných chráněných území a jejich návrhů ve Středočeském kraji v letech 1982-1985. - Bohemia Centralis, sv. 16, str. 244 - 245, Praha. Mašek, J. et al. (1993): Geologická mapa a vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČR 1 : 25 000, list 12 - 32 Zdice. ČGÚ Praha.; Vorel, T. et al. (2012): Geologická mapa a vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČR 1 : 25 000, list 12-322 Hudlice. ČGS Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Mašek Jan, Knížetová Ludmila, 01.01.94
Updated by: Plíšek Antonín 30.09.05, Steinová Marika 24.09.09, Gürtlerová Pavla 15.10.15

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 154 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-18]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/154.

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