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 : 650

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned quarry exposes Štramberk limestone with enclaves and fissures filled by lower Cretaceous rocks (Kopřivnice Limestone, Olivetská Hora Limestone, dark grey claystones). At the quarry base 53 m deep karst cave was recently discovered. Quarry serves as a botanic garden focused on endangered local flora.
Regional geologic unit: Carpathian - Flysch belt - Outer (Menilit-Krosněny) group of nappes
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - jura - svrchní jura - malm - tithon, mezozoikum - křída
Subject: paleontology, stratigraphy, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: fossils fauna, abyss, karst
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: limestone, claystone, marlstone

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
Part of the Geopark: Podbeskydí
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Menčík E. et al./1983/: Geologie Moravskoslezských Beskyd a Podbeskydské pahorkatiny.-1-307, Ústř.Úst.geol.Praha.; Roth, Z./1962/: Geologie vápencových útesů ve Štramberku na Moravě a jejich vztahy k okolí.-MS Archiv ČGÚ Praha.; Roth Z. et al./1962/: Vysvětlivky k přehledné geologické mapě 1:200 000 M-34-XIX Ostrava, 1-292. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Eliáš Mojmír, 15.11.93
Updated by: Bubík Miroslav 25.10.12, Kukal Zdeněk 27.12.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 650 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/650.

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