General Characteristics

County (administration): Moravia-Silesian Region
District (town): Frýdek-Místek
Cadastre: Frýdek
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2522, 25221
Geological region: Subsilesian & Silesian units
Accessibility: - access without footpath
ID : 3578

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Outcrops at the southwestern slope of the Zámecký vrch (Castle hill) in Frýdek represent the type locality of the Frýdek Formation (Subsilesian Unit, Carpathian Flysch Belt). It is the historical type locality studied by Hochstetter (1852). The Frýdek Formation at Zámecký vrch consists of brown-grey calcareous mudstones (claystones) with few banks of calcareous fine- to medium-grained sandstones. Finds of ammonites Baculites hochstetteri Liebus, Puzosia aff. planulata Sow., foraminifer Abathomphalus mayaroensis and calcareous nannofossils proved the Late Maastrichtian age.
Regional geologic unit: Carpathian - Flysch belt - Outer (Menilit-Krosněny) group of nappes
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída - maastricht
Subject: lithology, paleontology, stratigraphy, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: outcrop, fossils fauna, stratotype
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: claystone, sandstone

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: road construction, vegetation

References

Eliáš, M. – Hanzlíková, E. (1964): Frýdecké vrstvy – typová lokalita na Zámeckém vrchu ve Frýdku-Místku. - Zprávy o geologických výzkumech v roce 1963, sv. 1, 255 - 256. Praha; Hanzlíková, E. (1969): The Foraminifera of the Frýdek Formation (Senonian). - Sbor. geol. Věd, P, 11, 7 - 84. Praha; Hanzlíková, E. – Krhovský, J. – Švábenická, L. (1982): Calcareous nannoplankton from the type locality of the Frýdek Formation (Lower Maastrichtian). - Sbor. geol. Věd, Paleontol., č. 25, 127 - 155. Praha; Hochstetter, F. (1852): Notiz über eine Kreideschichte am Fusse der Karpathen bei Friedek in k. k. Schlesien. - Jahrbuch geol. Reichsanst., 3, 4, 33-35. Wien; Liebus, A – Uhlig, V. (1902): Über einige Fossilien aus der karpatische Kreide. – Baiträge zur Paläontologie und Geologie ‚Ostereich-Ungarns und des Orients, 14, 1-2, 113-130. Wien; Růžička, B. – Beneš, V. (1949): Předběžná zpráva o foraminiferách frýdeckých vrstev. (Svrch. křída.) – Přírodovědecký sbor. ostrav. kraje, 10, 3, 253 – 260. Ostrava.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Bubík Miroslav, 25.10.12

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3578 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2023-12-04]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3578.

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