General Characteristics

County (administration): Zlín Region
District (town): Vsetín
Cadastre: Rožnov pod Radhoštěm
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2523, 25231
Geological region: Fore-Magura, Rača (E from the Napajedla gateway), Bystrica & Bílé Karpaty units
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 3380

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Račany Unit, Lukov Beds, Paleocene. Outcrop in Bečva River valley. Instructive outcrop of so called wild flysch with preserved sedimentary structures. This section consists mainly of sandstone with some conglomerate layers. Conglomerates contain rounded pebbles with predominating quartz. Sole marks, mainly flute casts, richly occur on sandstone bedding planes. In lower parts clay balls and clay galls in sandstones are abundant with fauna of agglutinated forams. The locality is situated in the Protected Landscape Area Beskydy.
Regional geologic unit: Carpathian - Flysch belt - Magurian group of nappes
Stratigraphy: neznámé stáří
Subject: stratigraphy, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: rock
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: sandstone, conglomerate

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registred geological localities suggested to protection in Protected landscape area
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Beskydy
Conflicts of interests: ground instability

References

Baldík a kol. (2011): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě 1:25000, 25-231 Rožnov pod radhoštěm. - ČGS, Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Barak Petr, 13.01.12
Updated by: Baldík Vít 07.03.12, Kukal Zdeněk 27.09.12, Kukal Zdeněk 29.12.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3380 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-24]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3380.

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