General Characteristics

County (administration): Plzeň Region
District (town): Plzeň-sever
Cadastre: Rabštejn, Vysoká u Manětína, Černá Hať, Hluboká u Žihle, Kaleč, Kotaneč
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1124,1142, 11244
Geological region: Barrandian Proterozoic; Tisá and Čistá-Jesenice massifs
Accessibility: - passable footpath
ID : 877

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Střela River vallye, locally with canyon-appearance, with the cliffs consisting of slightly metamorphosed Neoproterozoic sediments of the biotite and chlorite metamorphic zones with dominating monotonous sequence of metasiltstones, greywackes and phyllites.D ownstream the metamorphic degree decrease. Petrologically interesting, very attractive landforms including river meanders.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum
Subject: geomorphology, petrology
Geological phenomenon: canyon, horizontal section
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: phyllite, slate, schist

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature reserve
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)
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Zahradnický J., Mackovčin P. a kol.(2005): Plzeňsko a Karlovarsko. In: Mackovčin P. a Sedláček M.(eds.): Chráněná území ČR, svazek XI. Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR a EkoCentrum Brno, str. 361, Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Žáček Vladimír, 16.10.94
Updated by: Lorencová Markéta 25.01.05, Žáčková Eliška 02.09.10, Žáček Vladimír 01.12.14, Vajskebrová Markéta 23.04.21

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 877 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-25]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/877.

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