General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Beroun
Cadastre: Tlustice, Žebrák
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1234, 12342
Geological region: Barrandien Palaeozoic; Blanice Furrow
Technical object: guarry
ID : 997

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned open pit exposing a whetstone (tuffitic silicite) of the Central Bohemian Cabonifeous. The Lower Radnice Seam is overlain by a sandy tuff which passes into ash tuffs. Rich finds of flora corresponding to the Radnice Beds, Kladno Formation (Westphalian C).
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, geology, petrology, stratigraphy

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Part of the Geopark: Barrandien
Conflicts of interests: waste disposal

References

V. Holub (1966): Tlustice u Žebráka - lom Na Štylci. - in Exkursní průvodce XVII. sjezdu ČSMG 113-120. Praha. M. Libertín (1999): Paleoekologická charakteristika rostlinného společenstva z reliktu svrchního karbonu na Štílci u Žebráku.- Zprávy o geolog. výzk., ČGÚ. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Drábková Jana, 11.02.94

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 997 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-25]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/997.

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