General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Rakovník
Cadastre: Senec u Rakovníka
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1214, 12143
Geological region: Permo-Carboniferous and Tertiary of the Central Bohemian & Western Bohemian limnic regions
Accessibility: - special entry permit necessary (military area, quarry, private land)
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 2717

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Contact of Lower Paleozoic dikes and Neoproterozoic sediments
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Magmatites in Bohemicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: economic geology, geology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock, dyke
Genesis: magmatic, sedimentary
Rock: diorite, greywacke, metagraywacke, wacke

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: C - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a registration in the database of CGS
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: open cast mining

References

Stárková M. et al.(2004): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČR 1:25 000, list 12-143 Rakovník, - MS, ČGS

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Stárková Marcela, 26.01.07
Updated by: Stárková Marcela 10.12.15

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2717 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-26]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2717.

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