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General Characteristics

County (administration): Capital City of Prague
District (town): Praha
Cadastre: Libeň, Prosek
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1224, 12243
Geological region: Prague agglomeration
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: old mine workings
ID : 941

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: One of classical localities of the Bohemian Cretaceous basin. It exposes Cenomanian Peruc and Korycany formations in their sandy development. Very common floral remains.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Czech Cretaceous Basin
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - cenoman
Subject: paleontology, stratigraphy, lithology, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: fossils-flora, fossils fauna, bed, characteristic rock
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: sandstone, marlstone, lydite

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)
Conflicts of interests: waste disposal, vegetation

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. Kompletní přehled literatury viz Králík et al. (1984); Nádaskay, R. (2021): Mid-Cretaceous transgressions on the northern edge of Prague: Guidebook to field trip FT12, 35th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, June 21-25, 2021, Prague, Czech Republic, 17 pp. (online)

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: 941 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-03-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/941.

Location in map:

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Referenční profil peruckým a korycanským souvrstvím., Motyčková Kamila - Šír Jiří, 2015
Referenční profil peruckým a korycanským souvrstvím., Motyčková Kamila - Šír Jiří, 2015
Referenční profil peruckým a korycanským souvrstvím., Motyčková Kamila - Šír Jiří, 2015
Referenční profil peruckým a korycanským souvrstvím., Motyčková Kamila - Šír Jiří, 2015
Pavel Bokr, 2003
Pavel Bokr, 2003
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