General Characteristics

County (administration): South Moravia Region
District (town): Hodonín
Cadastre: Blatnička
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 3511, 35114
Geological region: Fore-Magura, Rača (E from the Napajedla gateway), Bystrica & Bílé Karpaty units
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
ID : 3092

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: West Carpathians, Bílé Karpaty Unit, Eocene-Paleocene. Road cut exposes sediments of the Nivnice Formation. Flysch sediments are fossiliferous. Paleocene-Eocene boundary beds are exposed there. Sediments yelded numerous marine fossils and so important P/E event could be investigated. Nature Monument.
Regional geologic unit: Carpathian - Flysch belt - Magurian group of nappes
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - paleogén - eocén, kenozoikum - paleogén - paleocén
Subject: paleontology, stratigraphy
Geological phenomenon: outcrop
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: limestone, claystone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature monument
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)
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Mackovčin P., Jatiová M., Demek J., Slavík P. a kol. (2007): Brněnsko. In: Mackovčin P.(ed): Chráněná území ČR, Svazek IX. Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR a EkoCentrum Brno,str.474 Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Jirková Pavlína, 29.03.10
Updated by: Krejčí Oldřich 18.10.12, Krejčí Oldřich 18.10.12

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3092 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-24]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3092.

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