General Characteristics

County (administration): South Moravia Region
District (town): Blansko
Cadastre: Veselice na Moravě
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2423, 24233
Geological region: Drahany and Mírov Culm; Moravian and Mladeč karst
Accessibility: - entry permit for car necessary
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 3924

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Small abandoned limestone quarry. The limestone is massive and of Middle Devonian age. Their cleavage and network of thin calcite veinlets is typical for it. In digging of ditch a tectonic contact between limestone and biotite-amphibole granodiorite was exposed. This locality belongs to the Moravský kras (Moravian Karst Area).
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moravosilesian region - Moravosilesian Palaeozoicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - devon - střední devon
Subject: geology, structural geology, history
Geological phenomenon: outcrop
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: limestone

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: Baldík Vít, 14.04.16
Updated by: Baldík Vít 10.05.17, Kukal Zdeněk 12.02.18

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3924 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-02]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3924.

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