General Characteristics

County (administration): Zlín Region
District (town): Kroměříž
Cadastre: Kurovice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2531, 25313
Geological region: Fore-Magura, Rača (E from the Napajedla gateway), Bystrica & Bílé Karpaty units
Technical object: guarry
ID : 690

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Active quarry with outcrops of deluvial and eolian sediments, fossil soils and soil complexes. These units vertically alternate. Four climatic and sedimentary cycles have been identified.
Regional geologic unit: Carpathian - West Carpathiqan Quaternary - Quaternary of Eastern Carpathian deposition areas
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - kvartér
Subject: geology, petrology, sedimentology, quaternary geology, paleontology
Geological phenomenon: fosil soil
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: colluvium, loess, soil, topsoil

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: open cast mining, private property

References

Kovanda, J. - Smolíková, L. - Fejfar, O. (1982): Erforschung des Basalteils einer pleisrozanen Schichtenfloge am Hang der Kurovice-Klippe (Mittelmahren). - Anropozoikum, 14, 29-55. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Uhlířová Ivana, 29.11.93

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 690 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/690.

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