General Characteristics

County (administration): Plzeň Region
District (town): Rokycany
Cadastre: Mlečice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1232, 12323
Geological region: Barrandien Palaeozoic; Blanice Furrow
Accessibility: - access without footpath
ID : 3756

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: The outcrop in a gully slope exposes the Skryje shales and siltstones with some interlayers of greywackes. This outcrops represents well known paleontological locality. It can be characterized as the marginal tectonic block of a ridge of Cambrian sediments. Surrounding scree blockś are already poor in fossil founds. This locality belongs to the Příbram-Jince Cambrian Basin.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien, Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - kambrium, paleozoikum - kambrium - střední kambrium
Subject: lithology, stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleontology
Geological phenomenon: outcrop
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: slate, schist, siltstone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: C - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a registration in the database of CGS
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

VOKÁČ, V. (1997): Middle Cambrian benthic assemblage in the Skryje Shale (Jince Formation) at Terešovská Huť (district of Rokycany, Czech Republic). – Palaeontologia Bohemiae, 3(6): 15–19.; VOKÁČ, V. – MICKA, V. (2004): Nové nálezy v jineckém souvrství (střední kambrium) na lokalitě Terešovská huť – U vily (příbramsko-jinecká pánev, Barrandien, Čechy). – Palaeontologia Bohemiae, 9(3): 13–14.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Vorel Tomáš, 01.04.14
Updated by: Kukal Zdeněk 19.09.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3756 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-05]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3756.

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