Vysoký vrch
General Characteristics
County (administration):
Středočeský kraj
District (town):
Kladno
Village:
Malé Kyšice
Cadastre:
Malé Kyšice
Map sheets:
12-23 Kladno, 12-233 Unhošť
Accessibility:
passable footpath
ID:
3784
Geology
Short characteristics of the site:
This locality is called "Vysoký vrch - the High Hill". It is formed of rocky ridge as long as 500 metres and 100 - 200 metres broad. This ridge is morphologically differentiated into numerous cliffs. This rock is a typical silicite, called also "lydite -buližník". The rock is intensively fractured and rocky cliffs rimmed by heaps of silicite blocks as large as 4 metres across. This silicite is often banded and its surface covered by films of limonite and haematite. Its groud mass consists of fine grained quartz with occassional muscovite. The rock belongs to the volcanosedimentary sequence of the Blovice Formation belonging to the Kralupy-Zbraslav Group of Neoproterozoic age. The locality is situated in the Protected Landscape Area.
Regional geologic unit:
Bohemian Massif > Bohemicum > Barrandien > Barrandien - Paleozoic > Kralupy - Zbraslav Group
Stratigraphy:
Neoproterozoic
Subject:
geomorphology, geology
Geological phenomenon:
block field, rock bag, selective erosion
Genesis:
sedimentary
Rock:
silicite
Territorial protection
Level of protection:
Registred geological localities suggested to protection in Protected landscape area
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas):
Křivoklátsko
Part of national geopark:
Barrandien
Conflicts of interests:
tourism, vegetation
References
- M.Stárková et al. (2014): Vysvětlivky ke geologické mapě 12-233 list Unhošť. - MS Archív ČGS Praha.
Elaboration and Updating
Elaborated by:
Marcela Stárková, 22.08.2014
Updated by:
Kukal Zdeněk, 27.11.2017
Citation
The database Important geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3784 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2023-06-16]. Available from: https:// lokality.geology.cz/3784.
Location in map:
Assessment
Scientifical assesment:
medium
Educational assesment:
major
Significance:
supraregional
Representativeness:
major
Geological importance:
geo-historical value, geo-regional value (mapping), geoturistic value
Locality conditions:
no problems
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