General Characteristics

County (administration): Zlín Region
District (town): Zlín
Cadastre: Horní Lhota
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2534, 25341
Geological region: Fore-Magura, Rača (E from the Napajedla gateway), Bystrica & Bílé Karpaty units
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 968

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned quarry with outcrops of upper parts of the Luhačovice Member of the Zlín Formation of the Rača Unit of the Magura flysch (Middle Eocene). Sediments consist of turbidite rhythms with predominating medium-grained quartzose sandstones. Stratigraphically and sedimentologically interesting locality.
Regional geologic unit: Carpathian - Flysch belt - Magurian group of nappes
Subject: stratigraphy, sedimentology

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered geological localities suggested for protection
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Conflicts of interests: open cast mining, waste disposal

References

Vůjta, M. (1993): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě 1 : 50 000, list 25-34 Luhačovice. - MS ČGÚ Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Vůjta Martin, 15.09.93
Updated by: Plíšek Antonín 03.02.03

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 968 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-02]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/968.

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