General Characteristics

County (administration): South Moravia Region
District (town): Hodonín
Cadastre: Těmice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 3422, 34222
Geological region: Neogene of the Vienna Basin
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: sand pit
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 1152

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Active sand pit exposing sands of the Bzenec Formation of the Vienna Basin (Pannonian). The sands are fine-grained, silty, calcareous with intercalations of calcareous siltstones. Also interlayers of coaly clays and some fossiliferous horizons. Sedimentologically and paleontologically significant locality.
Regional geologic unit: Carpathian - Vienna Basin - Vienna Basin (Moravian part)
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - neogén
Subject: sedimentology, geology, paleontology, stratigraphy
Geological phenomenon: bed, fossils fauna, bedding
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: sand, clay

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, reclamation

References

Novák, Z. a Tomanová Petrová, P. kol. (2009): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČR 1 : 25 000. List 34-222 Vracov. - 1-57, ČGS. Praha. Novák Z., Tomanová Petrová P. (eds), Adamová M., Břízová E., Bubík M., Gnojek I., Havlíček P., Jurová Z., Havlín Nováková D., Stráník Z., Šikula J. (2009): Základní geologická mapa ČR 1 : 25 000 s Vysvětlivkami, 34-222 Vracov. 58 str. ČGS Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Tomanová Petrová Pavla, 29.06.01
Updated by: Plíšek Antonín 22.02.05, Tomanová Petrová Pavla 24.09.12

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1152 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-25]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1152.

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