General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Beroun
Cadastre: Vinařice, Měňany
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1241, 12413
Geological region: Barrandien Palaeozoic; Blanice Furrow
Technical object: guarry
ID : 180

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Old vegetated quarries exposing the uppermost parts of the Lochkov Formation (Kotýz Limestone facies). Also boundary beds Lochkov/Prag are visible. This outcrop serves as a typical example of the Pragian event. Also important paleontological locality in the Vinařice Limestone.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - devon - spodní devon
Subject: paleontology, stratigraphy, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: karst, fossils fauna
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: waste disposal

References

Horný, R. (1960): Stratigrafie a tektonika západních uzávěrů silurskodevonského synklinoria v Barrandienu. - Sbor. Ústř. Úst. geol. , Geology, 26, 495-424. Praha. Chlupáč, I., Lukeš, P., Paris, F. a Schonlaub, H. P. (1985): The Lochkovian-Pragian boundary in the Lower Devonian of the Barrandian Area (Czechoslovakia).- Jb. Geol. B.A., 128 (1), 9-41. Wien. 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: 180 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-19]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/180.

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