General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Rakovník
Cadastre: Zbečno
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1214, 12144
Geological region: Barrandian Proterozoic; Tisá and Čistá-Jesenice massifs
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
ID : 2863

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: The road cut exposing a series of outcrops of the Neoproterozoic sediments. In them, layers of schists and siltstones alternate. Clay galls are abundant in some layers. Also veinlet of weathered subvolcanic rhyolite was found. All the rocks suffered only slight metamorphic changes.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum, paleozoikum
Subject: sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock, dyke
Genesis: sedimentary, magmatic
Rock: slate, schist, rhyolite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Interesting geological localities in Protected landscape area
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: C - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a registration in the database of CGS
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Křivoklátsko
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts, others human activity

References

Vorel T. (2006) in Stárková a kol.:Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě České republiky, list Lány

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Vorel Tomáš, 13.06.08
Updated by: Vorel Tomáš 16.12.15, Kukal Zdeněk 14.09.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2863 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-03]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2863.

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