General Characteristics

County (administration): Moravia-Silesian Region
District (town): Frýdek-Místek
Cadastre: Ostravice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2524, 25241
Geological region: Subsilesian & Silesian units
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
ID : 659

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned quarry exposes Upper Cretaceous strata of the Godula Development of the Silesian Unit (Outer Flysch Carpathians). The section is the type locality of the Mazák Formation (red shales) including the Ostravice Sandstone (thick calcareous sandstones and breccias). The Mazák Formation is overlaid by thin-rhythmic flysch of the Godula Formation.
Regional geologic unit: Carpathian - Flysch belt - Outer (Menilit-Krosněny) group of nappes
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída
Subject: stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleontology
Geological phenomenon: stratotype, diamictite, bedding, fossils fauna, fossils-flora
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: sandstone, claystone, breccia

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: waste disposal

References

Foldyna, J. - Šuf, J (1964): Poznámka o slepenci ve fosilním výmolu ostravckých vrstev. - Sbor. vědec. Prací VŠB v Ostravě, 10, 1-2, řada hornic.-geologic., 185-188;Roth, Z. et al. (1962): Vysvětlivky k přehledné geologické mapě 1 : 200 000 M-34-XIX Ostrava. – Geofond, 292 s., Praha; Roth, Z. (1980): Stratigrafie godulské skupiny Moravskoslezských Beskyd ve světle hlubokých vrtů. – Věstník ÚÚG, 55, 2, 75-84.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Eliáš Mojmír, 18.11.93
Updated by: Bubík Miroslav 16.11.12, Vajskebrová Markéta 19.11.20

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 659 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-26]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/659.

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