General Characteristics

County (administration): Capital City of Prague
District (town): Praha
Cadastre: Malá a Velká Chuchle
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1242, 12421
Geological region: Prague agglomeration
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: guarry
ID : 234

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Natural outcrops with almost whole sequence of the Lochkov Formaion with characteristic fauna. Distinct dolomite bank on the base. Significant brachysynclinal structure with an international stratotype of the Lochkovian/Pragian boundary.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: paleontology, sedimentology, geology
Geological phenomenon: fossils fauna, outcrop
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: slate, schist, limestone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature reserve
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: ground instability, vegetation, others human activity

References

Cháb, J. et al. (1988): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě 1:25 000, 12-142, Praha-jih. - Ústř. Úst. geol., 1-200. Praha. Kovanda, J. (1971): Kvartérní vápence Československa.- Sbor. geol. Věd, Antropozoikum, A, 7, 7-236. Praha. Kříž, J. (1992): Silurian field excursions: Prague Basin (Barrandian), Bohemia. 111 p., National Museum of Wales, Geol. Ser. 13. Cardiff.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Kříž Jiří, 10.11.93
Updated by: Steinová Marika 18.09.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 234 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/234.

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