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
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: guarry
ID : 182

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Sigificant outcrops of the Suchomasty and Acanthopyge limestones. Rich fauna in the two units. Reference section with complete sequence of the Dalejan and Lower Eifelian. Internationally recognized reference section with conodonts and tentaculites.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: paleontology, stratigraphy, sedimentology, geology
Geological phenomenon: karst, sinkhole, swallow hole, 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: open cast mining

References

Galle, A. - Hladil, J. et al. (1991): Lower Paleozoic corals of Bohemia and Moravia. - VI. Intern. Sympos. Fossil Cnidaria, Münster 1991, Excursion B3. Münster. Chlupáč, I. (1987, ed.): Základní geologická mapa a vysvětlivky ČSSR 1:25 000, list 12-413 Králův Dvůr. - Ústřední Ústav geologický, Praha. Chlupáč, I., Lukeš, P. a Zikmundová, J. (1979): The Lower/Middle Devonian boundary beds in the Barrandian area, Czechoslovakia. Geologica etz Palaeont., 13, 125-156. Marburg. Klapper, G., Ziegler, W. a Mashkova, T. V. (1978): Conodonts and correlation of Lower-Middle Devonian boundary beds in the Barrandian area of Czechoslovakia.- Geologica et Palaeontologica, 12, 103-116. Marburg. Skřivánek, F. - Ložek, V. (1974): Z výzkumu skalního převisu na Kobyle u Koněprus. - Českosl. kras, 25, 87-90. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Chlupáč Ivo, 19.03.93
Updated by: Steinová Marika 23.11.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 182 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-04]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/182.

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