General Characteristics

County (administration): Capital City of Prague
District (town): Praha
Cadastre: Dubeč
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1224, 12244
Geological region: Prague agglomeration
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 216

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Transgression of the Cretaceous Peruc Beds (Cenomanian) over the Ordovician Řevnice Quartzite. Clear angular unconformity is visible. Very instructive example of a mechanism of marine transgression.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: stratigraphy, geology, structural geology, lithology
Geological phenomenon: fault, unconformity, fold, transgression
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: quartzite, sandstone, conglomerate

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature monument
Additional information: See the Digital register of the Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic AOPK ČR
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: A - Protected Area (declared as Geological Locality)
Conflicts of interests: waste disposal

References

Čech, S., Klein, V., Kříž, J. a Valečka, J. (1980): Revison of the Upper Cretaceous stratigraphy of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. - Věst. Ústř. Úst. geol., 55 (6), 277-296. Praha. Straka, J. et al. (1987): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě 1:25 000, 12-244, Praha-východ. - Ústř. Úst. geol., 1-72. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Zelenka Přemysl, 04.10.93
Updated by: Lorencová Markéta 29.05.06, Steinová Marika 16.09.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 216 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-20]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/216.

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