General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Kladno
Cadastre: Kamenný Most
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1221, 12214
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 : 3258

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: The abandoned quarry exposing Late Carboniferous sediments of the Slaný Beds. They consist of obliquely bedded layers of arkoses, subarkoses and arkosic sandstones with some interlayers of quartzose sandstones. Erosional features can be observed within groups of beds. Described sediments have been deposited in deltaic and lacustrine environments. This locality belongs to the Central European and West European Permocarboniferous limnic basins.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Central and Western Bohemian Late Palaeozoicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - karbon - svrchní karbon - siles
Subject: lithology, sedimentology, engineering geology
Geological phenomenon: bedding, landslide, characteristic rock
Genesis: sedimentary, gravitational
Rock: arkose, sandstone

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, ground instability, open cast mining, vegetation

References

Dosud nepopsaná lokalita.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Lojka Richard, 31.08.10
Updated by: Lojka Richard 23.10.10, Lojka Richard 23.10.10, Kukal Zdeněk 08.09.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3258 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3258.

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