General Characteristics

County (administration): South Moravia Region
District (town): Hodonín
Cadastre: Vlkoš u Kyjova
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 3422, 34221
Geological region: Neogene of the Vienna Basin
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: sand pit
ID : 1151

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned sand pit with an outcrop of the Bzenec Formation of the Vienna Basin. Alternation of fine-grained sands and clayey silts, overlain by cross bedded fine-grained gravels and sands. Sedimentologically interesting locality.
Regional geologic unit: Carpathian - Vienna Basin - Vienna Basin (Moravian part)
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - neogén
Subject: geology, paleontology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock, fossils fauna
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: gravel, sand

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: C - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a registration in the database of CGS
Conflicts of interests: vegetation, others human activity

References

Bubík, M. a kol. (2000): Textové vysvětlivky k Základní geologické mapě ČR 1 : 25 000. List 34-221 Kyjov. - MS, Archiv Čes. geol. úst., Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Bubík Miroslav, 29.06.01
Updated by: Plíšek Antonín 19.08.04, Tomanová Petrová Pavla 16.08.16, Kukal Zdeněk 22.12.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1151 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2023-06-04]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1151.

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