General Characteristics

County (administration): Capital City of Prague
District (town): Praha
Cadastre: Dejvice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1224, 12243
Geological region: Prague agglomeration
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 937

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Monadnock towering above broad floodplain. Made of fine-grained greywackes and shales of the Kralupy-Zbraslav Group of the Barrandian Proterozoic. Also important botanical locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum
Subject: paleontology, geomorphology, sedimentology, petrology, botany
Geological phenomenon: rock salient
Genesis: sedimentary, volcanic
Rock: slate, schist, greywacke, siltstone, tuff, volcaniclastic deposits

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature monument
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 Locality)
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Králík, F. et al. (1984): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČSSR 1:25 000, list 12-243, Praha - sever. Ústř. Úst. geol. 131 p. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Mašek Jan, 10.10.94
Updated by: Steinová Marika 18.09.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 937 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-20]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/937.

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