General Characteristics

County (administration): Zlín Region
District (town): Vsetín
Cadastre: Karolinka
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2523, 25234
Geological region: Fore-Magura, Rača (E from the Napajedla gateway), Bystrica & Bílé Karpaty units
Accessibility: - access without footpath
ID : 1063

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: The area 1,5 km long and 1 km wide at the south slope of the Léští hill (900 m) shows variety of features related to slope failure: sandstone rocky outcrops, angular slope debris, block flows, pseudocarst caves and sinkholes, landslide pools etc.
Regional geologic unit: Carpathian - Flysch belt - Magurian group of nappes
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - paleogén, kenozoikum - paleogén - eocén
Subject: geomorphology, botany, engineering geology
Geological phenomenon: pseudocrast cave, landslide, scree, rock
Genesis: gravitational, sedimentary
Rock: sandstone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature monument 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) - Beskydy
Conflicts of interests: forestry

References

Hasalová, E.(1992): Skalní tvary Vsetínských vrchů. Diplomová práce. Katedra geografie, přírodovědecká f.UP,Olomouc 1992,73 s.; Kirchner,K.(1994): Pseudokrasové tvary ve Vsetínských vrších. V.Miedzynarodowe sympozjum pseudokrasowe.s.41,Szczyrk 1994, Polska.; Bubík M. et al.(2006): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČR 1:25 000, list 25-234 Horní Bečva, - MS, ČGS; Baroň, I. – Cílek, V. – Melichar, R. (2003): Pseudokrasové jeskyně jako indikátory svahových pohybů. - Geol. výzk. Mor. Slez. v r. 2002, 84-88. Brno.; Baroň, I. (2004): Structure, dynamics and history of deep-seated slope failures in the rača Unit, Magura Nappes, Outer Western Carpathians (Czech Republic). - MS Masarykova univerzita, Brno, 98 pp.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Kirchner Karel, 30.11.95
Updated by: Bubík Miroslav 18.01.07, Bubík Miroslav 18.04.12, Krejčí Oldřich 19.10.12

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1063 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-20]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1063.

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