General Characteristics

County (administration): Capital City of Prague
District (town): Praha
Cadastre: Libeň
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1224, 12243
Geological region: Prague agglomeration
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 939

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Cliffs made of the upper Cretaceous sandstones of the Perucko-Korycany Formation. Very instructive locality with well exposed diagonally bedded banks.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - cenoman
Subject: stratigraphy, sedimentology, geology
Geological phenomenon: rock, bedding
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: sandstone, conglomerate

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 and Biological Locality)
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Kubíková J., Ložek V., Špryňar P. a kol (2005) Praha. Chráněná území ČR, svazek XII.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Zelenka Přemysl, 10.01.93
Updated by: Steinová Marika 18.09.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 939 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-02]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/939.

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