General Characteristics

County (administration): Zlín Region
District (town): Uherské Hradiště
Cadastre: Bystřice pod Lopeníkem
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 3512, 35121
Geological region: Fore-Magura, Rača (E from the Napajedla gateway), Bystrica & Bílé Karpaty units
Accessibility: - passable footpath
ID : 703

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned quarry with outcrops of the Nivnice Formation of the Hluk Development of the Bílé Karpaty Unit. Together with sediments there are occurrences of sills of volcanites and some porcelanites. Stratigraphically and petrologically interesting locality classified as Nature Monument.
Regional geologic unit: Carpathian - Flysch belt - Magurian group of nappes
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - paleogén - eocén, kenozoikum - neogén - miocén - střední miocén
Subject: stratigraphy, petrology, volcanology
Geological phenomenon: dyke
Genesis: volcanic , sedimentary
Rock: porcelanite, claystone, andesite

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 (declared as Geological Locality)
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Krejčí, O. et al. (1990): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě 1 : 25 000 35-121 Bánov. - MS Archiv ČGÚ.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Krejčí Oldřich, 21.11.93
Updated by: Krejčí Oldřich 22.10.12, Kukal Zdeněk 27.12.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 703 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-20]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/703.

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