General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Beroun
Cadastre: Žloukovice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1232, 12322
Geological region: Barrandian Proterozoic; Tisá and Čistá-Jesenice massifs
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
ID : 3897

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: This locality shows layers of alum schists within current Neoproterozoic schists with some pyrite. In the alum shales numerous secondary minerals are present, as result of pyrite weathering. They are represented mostly by sulphates and limonite. Nearby adit opening is mostly covered by stony talus. This adit is classified as a relic of old mining workings.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum - neoproterozoikum (1000 - 542 Ma)
Subject: economic geology, lithology
Geological phenomenon: incrustation, characteristic rock
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: slate, schist

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Interesting geological localities in Protected landscape area
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: C - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a registration in the database of CGS
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Křivoklátsko
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Vorel, T., red. (2012): Základní geologická mapa České republiky 1 : 25 000 s Vysvětlivkami 12-322 Hudlice. Česká geologická služba. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Vorel Tomáš, 15.10.15
Updated by: Vorel Tomáš 05.11.15, Kukal Zdeněk 13.09.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3897 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-26]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3897.

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