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General Characteristics

County (administration): South Moravia Region
District (town): Blansko
Cadastre: Housko
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2423, 24233
Geological region: Drahany and Mírov Culm; Moravian and Mladeč karst
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
ID : 3923

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Old abandoned quarry exposing a sequence of greyish and brownish greywackes and clayey siltstones of the Culm age. This sequence consists of rhythmites with alternation of graded bedded greywackes with clayey siltstones. Bioturbation is rich in greywackes together with current ripples. Convolute structures occur in finer grained greywackes and siltstones. This locality belongs to the Drahany Upland Area.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moravosilesian region - Moravosilesian Palaeozoicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - karbon - spodní karbon - kulm
Subject: geology, lithology, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: bedding, ichnofossil
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: greywacke

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

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: Novotny Roman, 15.04.16
Updated by: Kukal Zdeněk 12.02.18

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3923 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-03-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3923.

Location in map:

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Spodní vrstevní plocha brodeckých drob, s proudovými mechanoglyfy dokládající proudění v pánvi ve směru JJZ–SSV., Roman Novotný, 2015
Pohled na opuštěný lom, který je založen v brodeckých drobách protivanovského souvrství., Roman Novotný, 2014


(C) 2003-2012 ČGS, verse aplikace 1.21 [3.2.2016]