General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Beroun
Cadastre: Suchomasty
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1241, 12413
Geological region: Barrandien Palaeozoic; Blanice Furrow
Technical object: guarry
ID : 177

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Old quarries with outcrops of lower parts of the Lochov Formation (Lower Devonian). Older part of the section is in a facie of the Radotín Limestone, the younger one in the facies of the Kotýz Limestone. Important fossiliferous horizons.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - devon - spodní devon
Subject: paleontology, stratigraphy
Geological phenomenon: fossils fauna
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: limestone

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: reclamation

References

Bouček, B. (1957): The dendroid graptolites of the silurian of Bohemia. - Rozpr. Ústř. Úst. geol., 23, 1-239. Praha. Chlupáč, I. (1987, ed.): Základní geologická mapa a vysvětlivky ČSSR 1:25 000, list 12-413 Králův Dvůr. - Ústřední Ústav geologický, Praha. Chlupáč, I., Jaeger, H. a Zikmundov , J. (1972): The Silurian-Devonian boundary in the Barrandian.- Bull. Canad. Petrol. Geol., 20 (1), 104-174. Calgary.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Chlupáč Ivo, 18.03.93

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 177 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-02]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/177.

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