General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Příbram
Cadastre: 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
Technical object: guarry
ID : 475

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Old quarries and natural outcrops. Part of a Křemenice synclinal structure. In its core limestones of Zbirov and siliciclastics of Křemenice formations appear. Also type locality of Hodětín shales overlying Týnčany Formation (Silurian-Devonian). Stratigraphically and tectonically important locality.
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 - silur, paleozoikum - ordovik
Subject: stratigraphy, petrology, mineralogy
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock, deformation fabrics, stratotype
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism), metamorphic (contact metamorphism)
Rock: marble, dolomite, quartzite, slate, schist, pegmatite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered geological localities suggested for protection
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

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. Svoboda J.(1933): Metamorfovaný ostrov sedlčansko-krásnohorský. Archiv přírodověd. Výzk. Čech, 18, 4:1-62. 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: 475 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/475.

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