General Characteristics
County (administration): Plzeň Region
District (town): Plzeň-jih
Cadastre: Dolní Vlkýš
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1144, 11444
Geological region: Permo-Carboniferous and Tertiary of the Central Bohemian & Western Bohemian limnic regions
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: guarry
ID : 2075
Geology
Short characteristics of the site: Permocarboniferous, Plzeň Basin. Small abandoned quarry with outcrops of Carboniferous arkoses of the Slaný Formation. They are massive, coarse grained, whitish and yelllowish with ripple marks on basal bedding plane. In nearby outcrops lacustrine sediments of the Malesice Beds are exposed.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Central and Western Bohemian Late Palaeozoicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - karbon
Subject: sedimentology, stratigraphy
Geological phenomenon: ripple marks
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: arkose
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 Praha. 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: 2075 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-03-28]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2075. Location in map:
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