General Characteristics

County (administration): South Moravia Region
District (town): Blansko
Cadastre: Sloup v Moravském krasu
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2423, 24233
Geological region: Drahany and Mírov Culm; Moravian and Mladeč karst
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 1279

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Karst cave with unique fill of Quaternary sediments. Their stratigraphic section is as follows: Riss Glacial, last interglacial (Eemian), whole Last Ice Age, Holocene. Significant archeological and paleontological finds. This locality is registered as a Natural Reserve in Protected Landscape Area Moravský kras - the Moravian Karst.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moravosilesian region - Moravosilesian Palaeozoicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - devon, kenozoikum - kvartér - pleistocén - střední pleistocén - riss
Subject: archeology, geomorphology, paleontology
Geological phenomenon: karst, karst cave
Genesis: anthropogenic (anthropogenic activity), sedimentary, aquatic (water activity)
Rock: loess, limestone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature reserve 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 Locality)
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Moravský kras
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Kříž J., 2000: Lower Palaeozoic, Upper Cretaceous and Quaternary of Bohemia. - Excursion guidebook, European Assotiation for the Conservation of the Geological Heritage, June 1st - June 9th, str. 40. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Dašková Jiřina, 29.11.01
Updated by: Otava Jiří 04.11.11, Gürtlerová Pavla 04.10.17, Kukal Zdeněk 12.12.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1279 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-26]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1279.

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