General Characteristics

County (administration): Capital City of Prague
District (town): Praha
Cadastre: Radotín
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1242, 12421
Geological region: Prague agglomeration
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: guarry
ID : 245

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Large quarry and road cut. Exposing section of the Silurian and Lower Devonian strata. Boundary intervals Ludlow/Přídolí/Lochkovian serve as a reference stratotype. Old Barrande´s collecting localities.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: stratigraphy, paleontology, lithology, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: outcrop, fossils fauna, stratotype
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: limestone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature monument in Protected landscape area
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 LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Český kras
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: open cast mining, ground instability

References

Horný, R. (1962): Das mittelböhmische Silur. - Geologie, 11, 873-916. Berlin. Kříž J., Jaeger H., Paris F. a Schönlaub H.-P. (1986): Přídolí - the Fourth Subdivision of the Silurian. - Jb. Geol. Bundesanst., 129 (2), 291-360. Wien.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Kříž Jiří, 11.10.93
Updated by: Steinová Marika 18.09.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 245 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-26]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/245.

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