General Characteristics

County (administration): South Moravia Region
District (town): Břeclav
Cadastre: Pavlov u Dol. Věstonic, Horní Věstonice, Perná, Klentnice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 3412, 34124
Geological region: Pouzdřany, Ždánice & Zdounky units; Rača unit of the Chřiby Mts.
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 678

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Limestone massifs formed of the Upper Jurassic Klentnice Beds (Oxfordian up to) Lower Tithonian) and Ernstbrunn Limestone (Upper Tithonian up to Hauterivian). They are overlain by the Upper Cretaceous calcareous sandstones and bioclastic limestones. Significant locality from many viewpoints, part of the biospheric reservation.
Regional geologic unit: Carpathian - Klippen zone - Kopanice development
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - jura
Subject: stratigraphy, structural geology, paleontology, geomorphology, sedimentology, botany, geology
Geological phenomenon: rock bag, gully, gorge, rock salient, rock, fossils fauna, fault
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: limestone, marl, claystone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: National nature reserve in Protected landscape area
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 and Biological Locality)
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Pálava
Conflicts of interests: open cast mining, ground instability

References

Jüttner, K. (1933): Zur stratigraphie und Tektonik des Mesozoikums der Pallauer Berge. - Verh. Naturf. Ver. Brünn, 64, 15-31. Brünn (Brno). Matějka, A. - Stráník, Z. (1961): Poznámky ke geologii Pálavských vrchů. - Zprávy geol výz. 1960, 153-154. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Stráník Zdeněk, 15.10.93
Updated by: Gürtlerová Pavla 15.11.08, Novotný Roman 19.11.08

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 678 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-28]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/678.

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