General Characteristics

County (administration): Zlín Region
District (town): Vsetín
Cadastre: Horní Bečva
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2523, 25234
Geological region: Subsilesian & Silesian units
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 2657

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned quarry in Horní Bečva is good example of pebbly mudstones within the Istebna Formation of the Silesian Unit. The quarry is the palaeobotanical type locality. Knobloch (1971 and 1977) described here several species of Cretaceous fossil fruits and seeds reworked in marine sediments.
Regional geologic unit: Carpathian - Flysch belt - Outer (Menilit-Krosněny) group of nappes
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - maastricht
Subject: paleontology, geology, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: fossils-flora
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: siltstone, sandstone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registred geological localities suggested to protection in Protected landscape area
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Beskydy
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Bubík M. et al.(2006): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČR 1:25 000, list 25-234 Horní Bečva, - MS, ČGS; Knobloch, E. (1971): Fossile Früchten und Samen aus der Flyschzone der mährischen Karpaten. - Sbor. geol. Věd, Paleontol., 13, 7-46. Praha.; Knobloch, E. (1977): Paläokarpologische Charakteristik der Flyschzone der mährischen Karpaten. - Sbor. geol. Věd, Paleontol., 19, 79-137. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Bubík Miroslav, 18.01.07
Updated by: Bubík Miroslav 17.04.12, Bubík Miroslav 25.10.12

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2657 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2023-12-04]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2657.

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