General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Beroun
Cadastre: Srbsko
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1241, 12413
Geological region: Barrandien Palaeozoic; Blanice Furrow
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 167

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Old abandoned quarries with exposures of the upper part of the Lochkov Formation up to the base of the Zlíchov Formation (Devonian). Several caves representing the second largest cave system in the Bohemian Karst. Important finds of the Pleistocene cave fauna.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: stratigraphy, structural geology, paleontology, geomorphology
Geological phenomenon: karst, karst cave, river terrace, fluvial terrace, fossils fauna
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: limestone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: National 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 (declared as Geological and Biological Locality)
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Český kras
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: waste disposal, tourism, vegetation

References

Chlupáč, I. (1955): Stratigrafická studie o nejstarších devonských vrstvách Barrandienu. - Sbor. Ústř. Úst. geol, Geol., 21, 2, 91-224. Praha. Chlupáč, I. (1957): Faciální vývoj a biostratigrafie středočeského spodního devonu. - Sbor. Ústř. Úst. geol, Geol., 23, 1, 369-485. Praha. Chlupáč, I. (1987, ed.): Základní geologická mapa a vysvětlivky ČSSR 1:25 000, list 12-413 Králův Dvůr. - Ústřední Ústav geologický, Praha. Kučera, B. - Hromas, J. - Skřivánek, F. (1981): Jeskyně a propasti v Českoslovenku. - Academia Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Chlupáč Ivo, 05.04.93
Updated by: Steinová Marika 12.11.08

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 167 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-24]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/167.

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