General Characteristics

County (administration): Capital City of Prague
District (town): Praha
Cadastre: Lochkov
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1242, 12421
Geological region: Prague agglomeration
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
ID : 242

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Outcrops of the middle and upper parts of the Kopanina Formation (Silurian, Ludlow). Renown Orthoceras quarry with bioclastic limestones with numerous orthoceras shells. Old paleontological locality. The locality is classified as Nature Monument and is situated in Geopark Joachim Barrande (candidate).
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: stratigraphy, paleontology, geology, sedimentology, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: fossils fauna, bed, fault
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: 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 Locality)
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: collection, vegetation, ground instability

References

Kříž, J. (1992): Silurian field excursions: Prague Basin (Barrandian), Bohemia. 111 p., National Museum of Wales, Geol. Ser. 13. Cardiff. Kříž, J. a Schmittová, L. (1963): Stratigrafické a paleontologické poměry Ortocérového lůmku u Lochkova. - Čas. Nár. Muz., odd. přír., 132, 39-44. Praha. Paris, F. a Kříž, J. (1984): Nouvelles especes de Chitinozoaires a la limite Ludlow/Přídol en Tchéchoslovaquie. - Rev. Paleobot. Palynol., 43, 155-177. Amsterdam. Kompletní bibliografie viz Kříž (1992).

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Kříž Jiří, 11.10.93
Updated by: Steinová Marika 17.09.09, Kukal Zdeněk 21.02.18, Kukal Zdeněk 01.03.18

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 242 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-25]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/242.

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