General Characteristics

County (administration): Capital City of Prague
District (town): Praha
Cadastre: Ořech, Zadní Kopanina
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1241, 12412
Geological region: Prague agglomeration
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: guarry
ID : 220

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Significant continuous section from the Lochkovian (Kotýz Limestone facies) up to the complete Pragian sequence and basal parts of the Zlíchov Formation. Small thickness of the Praha Formation. Also outcrop of volcanic vent filled with weathered tuffs.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: stratigraphy, paleontology, petrology, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: fossils fauna, bed
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: without conflicts

References

Barrande, J. (1865): Défense des colonies. III. Étude générale sur nos étages G - H avec application spéciale aux environs de Hlubočep, prés Prague. 1-367. Prague. Chlupáč, I. (1957): Faciální vývoj a biostratigrafie středočeského spodního devonu.- Sbor. Ústř. Úst. geol., odd.geol., 23 (1956), 369-485. Praha. Kovanda, J. et al. (1984): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě 1:25 000, 12-412 Rudná. Ústř. Úst. geol., 1-122. Praha. Svoboda, J. a Prantl, F. (1948): O stratigrafii a tektonice staršího paleozoika v okolí Chýnice. - Sbor. St. geol. Úst. Čs. Republ., 15, 1-39. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Chlupáč Ivo, 04.12.93

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 220 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-03]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/220.

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