General Characteristics

County (administration): South Moravia Region
District (town): Blansko
Cadastre: Sloup
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2423, 24233
Geological region: Drahany and Mírov Culm; Moravian and Mladeč karst
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
ID : 1280

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Semi-blind karst valley which developed along the contact between the Devonian limestones and the granitoids of the Brno Massif. It could be called marginal polje. Very instructive karst locality. This locality is registered as Nature Reserve in the Protected Landscape Area Moravský kras - the Moravian Karst.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moravosilesian region - Moravosilesian Palaeozoicum, Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Quaternary - Quaternary of denudation areas of Bohemian Massif
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - kvartér, paleozoikum - devon - svrchní devon - frasn
Subject: geomorphology, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: karst, cliff, abyss, swallow hole
Genesis: sedimentary, aquatic (water activity), anthropogenic (anthropogenic activity)
Rock: gravel-sand, 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: tourism

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.; Baldík, V. et al. (2016): Vysvětlivky k základním geologickým mapám České republiky 1 : 25 000 24-233 Ostrov u Macochy. MS Archiv České geologické služby.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Dašková Jiřina, 29.11.01
Updated by: Otava Jiří 05.11.11, Gürtlerová Pavla 04.10.17, Kukal Zdeněk 12.12.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1280 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-03]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1280.

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