General Characteristics

County (administration): Plzeň Region
District (town): Plzeň-sever
Cadastre: Plešnice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1144, 11444
Geological region: Barrandian Proterozoic; Tisá and Čistá-Jesenice massifs
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
ID : 2069

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Barrandian, Proterozoic and Palaeozoic. Abandoned shelf quarry with rhyolite stock of unknown age (possibly Early Palaeozoic). This rock is massive, with quartz and feldspar phenocrysts, and intensively fractured. Its body is partly deliminated by faults.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum
Subject: petrology, geomorphology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock
Genesis: magmatic, tectonic
Rock: rhyolite, phyllite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: C - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a registration in the database of CGS
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Stárková M. a kolektiv autorů, 2002: Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČR v měřítku 1 : 25 000 list 11444 Nýřany.- Česká geologická služba.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Mašek Jan, Stárková Marcela, 28.04.04
Updated by: Vajskebrová Markéta 17.06.21

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2069 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-25]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2069.

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