General Characteristics

County (administration): South Moravia Region
District (town): Hodonín
Cadastre: Kyjov
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 3422, 34221
Geological region: Neogene of the Vienna Basin
Accessibility: - special entry permit necessary (military area, quarry, private land)
Technical object: loam pit
ID : 1148

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Old brickyard with outcrops of greenish clays of the Bzenec Formation. They are overlain by sands and fine-grained gravel with local accumulation of bivalve shells. Stratigraphically and paleontologically important locality.
Regional geologic unit: Carpathian - Vienna Basin - Vienna Basin (Moravian part)
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - neogén
Subject: paleontology
Geological phenomenon: fossils fauna
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: sand

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: waste disposal, private property

References

Schinzelová, E. (1998): Paleontologická charakteristika a stratigrafické zařazení méně známých lokalit na Hodonínsku. - Geologické výzkumy na Moravě a ve Slezsku v roce 1997, 35 - 39. Brno.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Bubík Miroslav, 29.06.01
Updated by: Tomanová Petrová Pavla 25.09.12, Tomanová Petrová Pavla 16.08.16

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1148 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-06]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1148.

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