General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Rakovník
Cadastre: Jesenice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1213, 12133
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 : 3530

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Permocarboniferous, Central Bophemia. Old abandoned quarry shows a sequence of coarse grained terrestric fluvial and deltaic sediments and overlying fine grained lacustrine deposits (Stephanian B age). Current beddng analysis allowed to reconstruct paleocurrent direction.
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 - stephan - stephan B
Subject: geology, lithology, petrology, sedimentology, stratigraphy, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock, bed, bedding
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: sandstone, siltstone

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: without conflicts

References

Seifert A., red. (2012): Základní geologická mapa České republiky 1 : 25 000 s Vysvětlivkami 12-133 Jesenice. Česká geologická služba. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Štěpánek Petr, 14.05.12
Updated by: Lojka Richard 09.11.12

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3530 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-07]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3530.

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