General Characteristics

County (administration): Capital City of Prague
District (town): Praha
Cadastre: Hlubočepy
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1242, 12421
Geological region: Prague agglomeration
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 227

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Railway cut and adjacent outcrops expose and anticlinal structure in the Zlíchov Formation and overlying Daleje Shales. Serving as a reference section for this boundary(Zlíchovian/Dalejan).
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: stratigraphy, paleontology, structural geology, geology, lithology
Geological phenomenon: fossils fauna, fossils-flora, bed, outcrop, fold
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: slate, schist, limestone

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 and Biological Locality)
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. Bouček, B. (1941): Geologické výlety do okolí pražského. - Melantrich, 202 p. Praha. Chlupáč, I. (1957): Faciální vývoj a biostratigrafie středočeského spodního devonu.- Sbor. Ústř. Úst. geol., odd.geol., 23 (1956), 369-485. Praha. Cháb, J. et al. (1988): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě 1:25 000, 12-142, Praha-jih. - Ústř. Úst. geol., 1-200. Praha. Chlupáč, I. (1957): Faciální vývoj a biostratigrafie středočeského spodního devonu. - Sbor. Ústř. Úst. geol., odd.geol., 23 (1956), 369-485. Praha. Chlupáč, I. (1983): Stratigraphical position of Barrande's paleontological localities in the Devonian of Central Bohemia. - Čas. Min. Geol., 23 (3), 261-275. 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.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Chlupáč Ivo, 15.04.93
Updated by: Steinová Marika 23.09.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 227 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-26]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/227.

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