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: - passable footpath
ID : 951

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Road cut exposing upper parts of the Dobrotivá Formation and lower parts of the Libeň Formation. The claystones of the Dobrotivá Formation contain calcareous concretion with well preserved trilobite fauna.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Bohemicum (Central Bohemian region) - Barrandien
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: paleontology, sedimentology, stratigraphy, geology, lithology
Geological phenomenon: fossils fauna, outcrop, bed, concretion , stratotype
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: shale

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: ground instability, vegetation, collection

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. Havlíček, V. - Vaněk, J. (1996): Dobrotivian - Berounian boundary interval in the Prague Basin with special emphasis on the deepest part of the trough (Ordovician, Czech Republic). - Věst. Čes. geol. úst., 71, 3, 225-243. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Kříž Jiří, 10.11.90
Updated by: Steinová Marika 18.09.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 951 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-24]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/951.

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