General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Beroun
Cadastre: Budňany
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1241, 12414
Geological region: Barrandien Palaeozoic; Blanice Furrow
Accessibility: - access without footpath
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 3116

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: An important outcrop of the bioclastic limestones of the Praha Formation (Lower Devonian, Pragian Stage), exposed in the quarry. Small lake in the bottom of the quarry.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: geology, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: outcrop, karst cave, characteristic rock
Genesis: anthropogenic (anthropogenic activity), sedimentary
Rock: limestone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: National nature reserve in Protected landscape area
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)
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Český kras
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: recreation

References

Havlíček, V. et al. (1986): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě 1:25000 list 12-141 Černošice. 84 pp., Ústřední ústav geologický, Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Budil Petr, 06.03.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3116 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-27]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3116.

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