General Characteristics

County (administration): Capital City of Prague
District (town): Praha
Cadastre: Malá Chuchle, Hlubočepy
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1242, 12421
Geological region: Prague agglomeration
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 229

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Natural outcrops, road cut and old quarries showing the Silurian/Devonian boundary interval. Banks of bioclastic limestone on the base of the Lochkov Formation. Extremely valuable example of a differential folding of platy limestones. The memorial desk commemorating Joachim Barrande is placed on the rock. One of the most frequented geological localities in the whole world.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: stratigraphy, structural geology, paleontology, geology
Geological phenomenon: fossils fauna, fold, horizontal section, rock, stratotype
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: limestone, chert, hornfels

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: National 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)
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: vegetation

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. Krejčí, J. (1860): Mittheilungen über die Resultate der geologischen Aufnahmen in den Umgebungen von Prag und Beraun durch die k. k. geologische Reichsamstalt. Sitz.-Ber. Kön. Böhm. Gesell. Wiss. 2, 5-7. Wien. Galle, A. - Hladil, J. et al. (1991): Lower Paleozoic corals of Bohemia and Moravia. - VI. Intern. Sympos. Fossil Cnidaria, Münster 1991, Excursion B3. Münster. Hanuš, F. (1927): Pravý poklad pozůstatků devonské zvířeny u Prahy. - Čas. nár. Mus. 1927. Praha. Chlupáč, I. (1957): Faciální vývoj a biostratigrafie středočeského spodního devonu. - Sbor. Ústř. Úst. geol., odd.geol., 23 (1956), 369-485. Praha. Chlupáč, I. (1988): Devon. in: Cháb J.: Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČSSR 1:25 000 12-421, Praha-jih, Ústř. Úst. geol., 34-44. Praha. Chlupáč, I. (1993): Geology of the Barrandian.- Senckenberg - Buch, 69, 1-163. Frankfurt am Main. Chlupáč, I., Kříž, J. a Schönlaub, H. P. (1980): Field Trip E: Silurian and Devonian Conodont Localities of the Barrandan.- Abh. Geol. B.-A., 35, 147-180. Wien. Chlupáč, I. et al. (1986): Field conference Barrandian - Moravian Karst.- Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy - Excursion Guidebook, Ústř. Úst. geol., 1-62. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Chlupáč Ivo, 14.04.93
Updated by: Steinová Marika 12.11.08

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 229 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-26]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/229.

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