General Characteristics

County (administration): Plzeň Region
District (town): Plzeň-sever
Cadastre: Malesice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1144, 11444
Geological region: Permo-Carboniferous and Tertiary of the Central Bohemian & Western Bohemian limnic regions
Accessibility: - passable footpath
ID : 989

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Rock pillar formed of subarkoses with interlayers of fine- and coarse-grained conglomerates. Ferruginous admixture in the matrix causes interesting phenomena of a selective weathering. Sedimentologically and geomorphologically important locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Central and Western Bohemian Late Palaeozoicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - karbon - svrchní karbon - siles
Subject: geomorphology, petrology, sedimentology, lithology, stratigraphy
Geological phenomenon: selective erosion, rock, rock pillar, bedding, incrustation, characteristic rock
Genesis: sedimentary, weathering
Rock: arkose, 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 Locality)
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Pešek, J. (1986): Malesice. - in Exkurzní průvodce XVII. sjezdu ČSMG, 123-124.;Stárková M. a kolektiv autorů, 2002: Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČR v měřítku 1 : 25 000 list 11444 Nýřany.- Česká geologická služba Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Drábková Jana, 11.02.94
Updated by: Stárková Marcela 28.04.04, Plíšek Antonín 24.01.05, Lojka Richard 10.07.10

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 989 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-26]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/989.

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