General Characteristics

County (administration): Plzeň Region
District (town): Rokycany
Cadastre: Přívětice, Radnice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1233, 12332
Geological region: Permo-Carboniferous and Tertiary of the Central Bohemian & Western Bohemian limnic regions
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 993

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned and flooded open pit. Coal of the Lower and Upper Radnice seams( Westphalian C) was mined. Coal seams not deep below the surface are interlayered by volcaniclastic sediments. Also interesting remains of macroflora. Stratigraphically 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
Subject: paleontology, sedimentology, economic geology, petrology

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Drábková, J. (1986): Litologická a palynologická charakteristika karbonských sedimentů na dole Pokrok - Přívětice. - MS Geofond Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Mašek Jan, Drábková Jana, 11.02.94
Updated by: Stárková Marcela 08.03.04

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 993 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-04]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/993.

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