General Characteristics

County (administration): South Moravia Region
District (town): Břeclav
Cadastre: Bořetice u Hustopečí
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 3421, 34214
Geological region: Pouzdřany, Ždánice & Zdounky units; Rača unit of the Chřiby Mts.
Accessibility: - entry permit for car necessary
ID : 1415

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Vienna Basin, Quaternary. Exposure of Quaternary section in a field furrow. Pleistocene sequence exposes alternation of loess and palaeosoils. Loess is rich in malacofauna.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Quaternary - Quaternary of deposition areas of Bohemian Massif
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - kvartér
Subject: sedimentology, stratigraphy
Geological phenomenon: fosil soil
Genesis: aeolian (wind activity)
Rock: loess

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: C - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a registration in the database of CGS
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Čtyroký P. (1992): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČSFR 1 : 25 000 list 34214 Čejkovice.str. 69 - Český geologický ústav Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Novák Zdeněk, 12.11.02
Updated by: Plíšek Antonín 23.01.05, Havlíček Pavel 04.09.12, Kukal Zdeněk 15.10.12

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1415 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-04]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1415.

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