General Characteristics
County (administration): Capital City of Prague
District (town): Praha
Cadastre: Podolí
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1224, 12243
Geological region: Prague agglomeration
Accessibility: - access without footpath
Technical object: guarry
ID : 950
Geology
Short characteristics of the site: Reference section showing the upper parts of the Přídolí Formation, complete sequence of the Lochkov Formation and lower parts of the Praha Formation. Important example of the development of the Silurian/Devonian boundary beds and facies development of both the Lochkov and Praha formations.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: paleontology, stratigraphy, structural geology, sedimentology, lithology, geology
Geological phenomenon: fossils fauna, outcrop, rock, fold, characteristic rock
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: limestone
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: vegetation
References
Chlupáč, I. (1953): Stratigrafická studie o hraničních vrstvách mezi silurem a devonem ve středních Čechách. - Sbor. Ústř. Úst. geol., odd. geol., 20, 277-380. Praha. Chlupáč, I. (1955): Stratigrafická studie o nejstarších devonských vrstvách Barrandienu. - Sbor. Ústř. Úst. geol., odd. geol., 2, 21 (1954), 91-224. Praha. Chlupáč, I. (1957): Faciální vývoj a biostratigrafie středočeského spodního devonu. - Sbor. Ústř. Úst. geol., odd.geol., 23 (1956), 369-485. Praha. Chlupáč, I. (1983): Stratigraphical position of Barrande's paleontological localities in the Devonian of Central Bohemia. - Čas. Min. Geol., 23 (3), 261-275. Praha. Chlupáč, I., Jaeger, H. a Zikmundová, J. (1972): The Silurian-Devonian boundary in the Barrandian.-Bull. Canad. Petrol. Geol., 20 (1), 104-174. Calgary. 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. Kříž, J. (1992): Silurian field excursions: Prague Basin (Barrandian), Bohemia. 111 p., National Museum of Wales, Geol. Ser. 13. Cardiff. Přibyl, A. (1943): O stratigrafických poměrech siluru a devonu v podolské cementárně v Praze. - Rozpravy Čes. Akad. Věd. Umění, Tř. II., 57 (27), 1-20. Praha. Elaboration and Updating
Elaborated by: Chlupáč Ivo, 15.04.93
Updated by: Steinová Marika 23.09.09, Steinová Marika 23.11.09 Citation
The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 950 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-26]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/950. Location in map:
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