General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Kladno
Cadastre: Bratronice u Kladna
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1223, 12233
Geological region: Barrandian Proterozoic; Tisá and Čistá-Jesenice massifs
Accessibility: - special entry permit necessary (military area, quarry, private land)
Technical object: loam pit
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 3790

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: There are transition of fluvial gravelly sand to loess accumulation with thickness up to 12 m.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Quaternary - Quaternary of denudation areas of Bohemian Massif
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - kvartér
Subject: quaternary geology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: loess, gravel-sand

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
Conflicts of interests: open cast mining, waste disposal

References

M.Stárková et al. (2014): Vysvětlivky ke geologické mapě 12-233 list Unhošť. - MS Archív ČGS Praha.; VACHTL, J. (1947): Soupis lomů ČSR, č. 22 – Okres Rakovník. – St. geol. úst. ČSR. 84s. Praha. ; LOŽEK, V. – ŽÁK, K. (2011): Sedimenty terciéru a kvartéru a geomorfologický vývoj na Křivoklátsku. – Bohemia centr., 31: 49–94. AOPK Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Štor Tomáš, 17.09.14
Updated by: Štor Tomáš 17.09.14

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3790 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-28]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3790.

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