General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Rakovník
Cadastre: Lužná 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: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
ID : 2723

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: The rocky outcrop exposing coarse grained clastic sediments of the Nýřany Beds. The conglomerates and sandstones with gravel admixture prevail in their sequence. The sandstones can be classified as subarkoses. The conglomnerates contain clasts of quartz, quartzose sandstone, granite, gneiss and siltstone. The sandstones display current bedding with deeply cut channels. They were possibly deposuited by braided rivers. This locality belongs to the Central Bohemian and West Bohemian Late Paleozoic.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Central and Western Bohemian Late Palaeozoicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - karbon
Subject: geology, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: arkose, conglomerate, sandstone

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
Conflicts of interests: vegetation

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 14.12.15, Kukal Zdeněk 20.09.17, Kukal Zdeněk 25.09.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2723 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-25]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2723.

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