General Characteristics

County (administration): Plzeň Region
District (town): Plzeň-město
Cadastre: Radčice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1233, 12333
Geological region: Permo-Carboniferous and Tertiary of the Central Bohemian & Western Bohemian limnic regions
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 996

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Series of outcrops on the river bank. Exposures of sediments of the Central Bohemian Permocarboniferous, Nýřany Beds (Kladno Formation) and also lower parts of the Týnec Formation. Instructive section through Permocarboniferous sediments.
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: sedimentology, geomorphology, stratigraphy
Geological phenomenon: ripple marks, lithological boundary, horizontal section, slickenside, honeycombs, fossils-flora, stratotype, characteristic rock
Genesis: sedimentary, weathering
Rock: arkose, claystone, sandstone, siltstone, tuff

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, ground instability, private property, vegetation

References

Vítek J. (l987): Pseudokrasové tvary v karbonských sedimentech sz. od Plzně. - Čs. Kras 38, 125 - 127, Praha.; J. Drábková – R. Lojka – Z. Šimůnek (2005): Paleoekologie a biostratigrafie jemnozrnných poloh defilé u Radčic (Kantabr, plzeňská pánev). Zprávy o geologických výzkumech v r. 2004, 30-33. ČGS Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Kraft Jaroslav, 21.07.93
Updated by: Lojka Richard 10.07.10

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 996 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-01]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/996.

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