General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Rakovník
Cadastre: Karlova Ves
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1232, 12321
Geological region: Barrandien Palaeozoic; Blanice Furrow
Accessibility: - access without footpath
ID : 3291

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Barrandian, Uppper Cambrian volcanics. Mighty rocks on steep slope overlooking Berounka River. Upper Cambrian andesites with transition to basalts on one hand and to more acidic dacites on the other hand. These rocks belong to the geological unit called the Křivoklát-Rokycany Complex. Very instructive outcrops of the Upper Cambrian volcanics.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - kambrium - svrchní kambrium
Subject: volcanology
Geological phenomenon: lava, horizontal section, lava flow, characteristic rock
Genesis: volcanic
Rock: andesite

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) - Křivoklátsko
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Waldhausrová, J. (1968): Kambrické vulkanity. – Komplexní úkol T-1-20-1/2, Regionální geologický výzkum ČSSR. – MS Archív Česká geologická služba, Praha.; Waldhausrová, J. (1969): Kambrické vulkanity křivoklátsko-rokycanského pásma. Kandidátská disertační práce. – MS ČGS-Geofond. Praha.; Waldhausrová, J. (1971): The chemistry of the Cambrian volcanics in the Barrandian Area. – Krystalinikum, 8, 45 – 75, Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Vorel Tomáš, 14.01.11
Updated by: Kukal Zdeněk 01.10.12, Vajskebrová Markéta 08.12.23

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3291 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-04]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3291.

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