General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Příbram
Cadastre: Krašovice, Kuní
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2221, 22214
Geological region: Central Bohemian Pluton and Roof Pendants of the Central Bohemian Pluton
Accessibility: - access without footpath
ID : 474

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Natural outcrops on forested slope. Krašovice Formation is exposed here and formed of erlanes, cordieritic and andalusitic schists and cherts with two quartzite horizons. Quartzites yielded typical Skolithos ichnofossils. Stratigraphically important outcrop.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Island zone of Cntral Bohemian Pluton (roof pendants)
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum, paleozoikum - ordovik
Subject: stratigraphy, petrology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock, ichnofossil, lithological boundary, stratotype
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: quartzite, slate, schist, calc-silicate rock, metasiltstone, metagraywacke, wacke

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: without conflicts

References

Svoboda J./1933/: Metamorfovaný ostrov sedlčansko-krásnohorský.-Archiv přírodověd.Výzk.Čech,18,4:1-62.Praha. Chlupáč I./1989/: Stratigraphy of the Sedlčany-Krásná Hora Metamorphic Islet in Bohemia /Proterozoic? to Devonian/. Čas. Mineral. Geol., 34:1-16.Praha. Chlupáč I./1991/: Nově navrhované chráněné geologické lokality v okolí Sedlčan a Krásné Hory.-Čas.Miner.Geol.,36,163-173.Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Chlupáč Ivo, 22.11.92
Updated by: Vajskebrová Markéta 21.10.19

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 474 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/474.

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