General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Rakovník
Cadastre: Skryje nad Berounkou
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1232, 12323
Geological region: Barrandien Palaeozoic; Blanice Furrow
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 3758

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: The old small quarries in the road cut. They expose layers of siltstones and clayey shales. This locality is well known from the paleontological viewpoint. Numerous trilobites, brachiopodes, hyolites, ichnofossils etc. have been found there. The fossil-bearing formation is called the Skryje Formation of the Mid Cambrian age. Described sedimentary section is overlain by terrestrical extrusion of andesites of the Křivoklát-Rokycany Zone. The locality belongs to the Příbram-Jince Basin. As to the paleontologists, they call this locality "Buchava".
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: paleontology, sedimentology, stratigraphy, lithology
Geological phenomenon: stratotype, fossils fauna, outcrop, rock
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: siltstone, slate, schist

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: 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

FATKA, O. – MICKA, V. – SZABAD, M. – VOKÁČ, V. – VOREL, T. (2011): Nomenclature of Cambrian lithostratigraphy of the Skryje-Týřovice Basin. – Bull. Geosci. 86, 4, 841–858. ; MAREK, L. (1975): Objev nové hyolithové fauny ve skryjsko-týřovickém kambriu. – Bohemia centr., 4: 64–71.

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: 3758 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-04]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3758.

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