General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Beroun
Cadastre: Vinařice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1241, 12413
Geological region: Barrandien Palaeozoic; Blanice Furrow
Technical object: guarry
ID : 176

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Along the hill summit there are outcrops of limestones of the Praha Formation in a special facial development, i.e. transition from a bioclastic up to the micritic facies. Abundant superficial karst features. Stratigraphically very important.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - devon - spodní devon
Subject: stratigraphy, sedimentology, archeology
Geological phenomenon: karst, characteristic rock
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: limestone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registred geological localities suggested to protection in Protected landscape area
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Český kras
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: vegetation

References

Chlupáč, I. (1987, ed.): Základní geologická mapa a vysvětlivky ČSSR 1:25 000, list 12-413 Králův Dvůr. - Ústřední Ústav geologický, Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Chlupáč Ivo, 18.03.93

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 176 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-28]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/176.

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