General Characteristics

County (administration): Capital City of Prague
District (town): Praha
Cadastre: Motol
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1224, 12243
Geological region: Prague agglomeration
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
ID : 945

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Outcrops in the road cut. Calcareous shales of the lower parts of the Motol Formaions occur. Also basalt intrusion can be seen which causes contact metamorphosis of adjacent shales. They contain well preserved graptolite fauna.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: stratigraphy, paleontology, lithology, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: fossils fauna, dyke, intrusion, bed, outcrop, stratotype
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: slate, schist

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)
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: vegetation, ground instability

References

Barrande, J. (1870): Défense des colonies IV. 1. Description de la Colonie d°Archiac. 2. Paix aux Colonies. - Déclarations de M. M. Krejčí et Lipold. 3. Caractéres généraux des Colonies, dans le basin silurien de la Boheme. 1 - 186. Prague, Paris. Pouba, Z. (1949): Geologický vývoj motolského údolí. - Sbor. St. geol. Úst. Čs. Republ., 16, 799-843. Praha. 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. Marr, J. E. (1880): On the Predevonian Rocks of Bohemia. - Quart. J. Geol. Soc., pp. 591 - 619. London. Valečka, J. et al. (1983): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČSSR 1:25 000, 12-234 Hostivice, Ústř. Úst. geol., 1-84. Praha. ompletní seznam viz literatury Králík (1984).

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Kříž Jiří, 11.11.93
Updated by: Steinová Marika 18.09.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 945 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-19]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/945.

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