General Characteristics

County (administration): Moravia-Silesian Region
District (town): Nový Jičín
Cadastre: Štramberk
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2521, 25213
Geological region: Subsilesian & Silesian units
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
ID : 649

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned quarry with well exposed oucrops of the Kopřivnice (=Nesseldorf) Formation (Valanginian) is rich palaeontological locality with brachiopods, gastropods, belemnites, echinoderms etc.
Regional geologic unit: Carpathian - Flysch belt - Outer (Menilit-Krosněny) group of nappes
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - spodní křída - valangin
Subject: stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleontology
Geological phenomenon: fossils fauna
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: limestone, marlstone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered geological localities suggested for protection
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Part of the Geopark: Podbeskydí
Conflicts of interests: vegetation, private property

References

Menčík, E. et al. (1983): Geologie Moravskoslezských Beskyd a Podbeskydské pahorkatiny. - 307 s., ÚÚG Praha. Roth, Z. (1962): Geologie vápencových útesů na Štramberku na Moravě a jejich vztahy k okolí. - MS ČGÚ Praha. Roth, Z. (1962): Vysvětlivky k přehledné geologické mapě 1 : 200 000 M-34-XIX Ostrava. - 292 s., ÚÚG Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Eliáš Mojmír, 11.11.93
Updated by: Bubík Miroslav 25.10.12

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 649 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-09]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/649.

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