General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Rakovník
Cadastre: Rynholec, Nové Strašecí
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1214, 12142,12144
Geological region: Permo-Carboniferous and Tertiary of the Central Bohemian & Western Bohemian limnic regions
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 2807

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: A pit extracting Carboniferous refractory clays with a section of the Kladno Formation (Westphalian C+D). The overlying Cretaceous sediments of the Peruc-Korycany Formation and the Bílá hora Formation reveal spatial relationships among sedimentary units of the continental-to-marine transition. The Pecínov Member was defined at this site by Uličný and Špičáková (1996).Bohemian Permocarboniferousand Cretaceous. Active quarry exposing two important stratigraphical boundary beds: l) Between Cretaceous Cenomanian and Turonian, 2) between Permocarboniferous Nýřany and Radnice beds. Cretaceous boundary beds documents a boundary between terrestric and marine sedimentation.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Central and Western Bohemian Late Palaeozoicum, Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - karbon, mezozoikum - křída
Subject: geology, sedimentology, economic geology, stratigraphy
Geological phenomenon: lithological boundary, unconformity
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: claystone, sandstone, volcaniclastic deposits

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered geological localities suggested for protection
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Conflicts of interests: waste disposal

References

Uličný, D. (1992): Low and high-frequency sea-level change and related events during the Cenomanian and across the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary, Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. - MS PřF UK. Praha.; Uličný, D. - Špičáková, L. (1996): Response to high frequency sea-level change in a fluvialto estuarine succession: Cenomanian palaeovalley fill, Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. In: Howell, J. A. - Aitken, J. F. (eds): High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy: Innovations and Applications. - Geol. Soc. Spec. Publ., 104, 247 - 268.; Stárková, M. - Adamová, M. (2008): Vulkanoklastika svrchních radnických vrstev mezi Lubnou a Novým Strašecím. – Zprávy o geologických výzkumech v roce 2007 neuveden, srpen, 53-61. ISSN 0514-8057

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Zelenka Přemysl, 18.04.07
Updated by: Zelenka Přemysl 23.09.09, Stárková Marcela 16.12.15, Vajskebrová Markéta 20.05.19

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2807 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-20]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2807.

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