General Characteristics

County (administration): South Moravia Region
District (town): Hodonín
Cadastre: Velká nad Veličkou
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 3511, 35114
Geological region: Fore-Magura, Rača (E from the Napajedla gateway), Bystrica & Bílé Karpaty units
Technical object: loam pit
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 699

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Active brickyard with oucrops of sandstone beds with convolute structures and ripple bedding. They pass into calcareous claystones with pelocarbonate concretions. These sediments belong to the Kuželov Formation of the Hluk Development of the Bílé Karpaty Unit. Stratigraphically interesting locality classified as Nature Monument.
Regional geologic unit: Carpathian - Flysch belt - Magurian group of nappes
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - paleogén
Subject: stratigraphy, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock, fossils fauna
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: claystone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature monument
Additional information: See the Digital register of the Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic AOPK ČR
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: A - Protected Area (geology is important aspect of Biological declared Locality )
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Stráník, Z. et al. (1989): Geologie hluckého vývoje bělokarpatské jednotky. - MS ČGÚ Praha. Vůjta, M. (1993): Vysvětlivky k z kladní geologické mapě 1 : 25 000, list 35-114 Velká nad Veličkou. - MS ČGÚ Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Vůjta Martin, 21.11.93
Updated by: Plíšek Antonín 03.02.03, Kukal Zdeněk 27.12.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 699 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-18]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/699.

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