General Characteristics

County (administration): South Moravia Region
District (town): Hodonín
Cadastre: Dolní Bojanovice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 3422, 34223
Geological region: Neogene of the Vienna Basin
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
ID : 2291

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Vienna Basin, Quaternary. Shallow road cut exposing Pleistocene loess. This loess is calcareous and rich in muscovite. In lower parts it contains sand lenses with following association of heavy minerals: garnet, zircon, hornblende and staurolite. Sand is ill-sorted with quartz grains as large as 1,5 mm.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Tertiary - Marine Tertiary relics (Carpathian Neogene on Bohemian Massif), Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Quaternary - Quaternary of deposition areas of Bohemian Massif
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - kvartér
Subject: sedimentology, stratigraphy, mineralogy, quaternary geology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock
Genesis: aeolian (wind activity), sedimentary
Rock: loess, 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: waste disposal

References

Petrová P. a kolektiv autorů, 2001: Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČR v měřítku 1 : 25 000 list 34223 Hodonín.- Český geologický ústav Praha. Tomanová Petrová P. (ed), Adamová M., Bubík M., Gnojek I., Havlíček P., Hubatka F., Kycl P., Novák Z., Havlín Nováková D., Šikula J. (2008): Základní geologická mapa ČR 1 : 25 000 s Vysvětlivkami, 34-223 Hodonín. 56 str. ČGS Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Tomanová Petrová Pavla, 23.08.04
Updated by: Plíšek Antonín 08.02.05, Havlíček Pavel 04.09.12, Kukal Zdeněk 22.10.12

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2291 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-03]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2291.

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