General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Praha-východ
Cadastre: Větrušice u Klecan
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1224, 12241
Geological region: Barrandian Proterozoic; Tisá and Čistá-Jesenice massifs
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
ID : 2776

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Barrandian Proterozoic. National Nature Reserve. Series of rocky cliffs overlooking the Vltava River valley. Numerous outcrops of spilites, greywackes and lydites. Rocks are locally deeply wetheared, slopes are covered with blocky scree. Varied floral association of rocky steppes with a Sesleria genus.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum
Subject: botany, geology, geomorphology, quaternary geology, lithology, petrology, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: lithological boundary, rock, horizontal section, gully, scree, outcrop, fault, dyke
Genesis: sedimentary, volcanic , aquatic (water activity), gravitational
Rock: spilite, lydite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: National 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)
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Ložek V., Kubíková J., Spryňar P. a kol.(2005):Střední čechy. In: Mackovčin P. a Sedláček M.(eds.): Chráněná území ČR, svazek XIII. Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR a EkoCentrum Brno, str.438 - 440, Praha; Hofmeisterová H. a kol. (2014): Souhrn doporučených opatření pro evropsky významnou lokalitu Větrušické rokle, [online] [cit. 2022-12-01]. Dostupné z: file:///D:/Download_MLS/Vetrusicka%20rokle.pdf

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Gürtlerová Pavla, 29.05.07
Updated by: Gürtlerová Pavla 29.05.07, Kukal Zdeněk 26.11.12, Vajskebrová Markéta 01.12.22

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2776 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-23]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2776.

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