General Characteristics

County (administration): South Moravia Region
District (town): Blansko
Cadastre: Ostrov u Macochy
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2423, 24233
Geological region: Drahany and Mírov Culm; Moravian and Mladeč karst
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 737

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Road cut with outcrops of light grey Vilémovice Limestone (Macocha Formation, Frasnian, Upper Devonian). They pass upwards into multicoloured micritic Křtiny Limestone. Limestones of the Macocha and Líšeň formations (Upper Devonian) are overturned and thrusted over Březina and Rozstání formations of the Drahany lower Carboniferous. Stratigraphically important locality. This locality is situated in the Protected Landscape Area "Moravský kras - the Moravian Karst."
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moravosilesian region - Moravosilesian Palaeozoicum, Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moravosilesian region - Moravosilesian Palaeozoicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - devon - svrchní devon - frasn, paleozoikum - devon - svrchní devon - famen
Subject: stratigraphy, structural geology, sedimentology, lithology
Geological phenomenon: horizontal section, stratigraphic boundary, lithological boundary, fossils fauna, fold, stratotype
Genesis: sedimentary, tectonic
Rock: shale, limestone, greywacke

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) - Moravský kras
Conflicts of interests: road construction

References

Musil, R. et al. (1993): Moravský kras, labyrint poznání. - Adamov.; Dvořák, J. – Friáková, O. (1981): Paleogeografie famenu a tournai v severní části Moravského krasu (na základě konodontových faun). – Čas. Mineral. Geol., 26, 3, 301–306. Praha.; Dvořák, J. – Pták, J. (1963): Geologický vývoj a tektonika devonu a spodního karbonu Moravského krasu. – Sbor. geol. Věd., Geol., 3, 49–84. Praha.; Dvořák, V. – Melichar, R. (2002): Nástin tektonické stavby severní části Moravského krasu – Geologické výzkumy na Moravě a ve Slezsku v roce 2001, 51–57. Brno.; DVOŘÁK, J. (1997): Geologie paleozoika v okolí Ostrova u Macochy (Moravský kras, Morava). Journal of the Geological Society. 42. 1-2. Praha.; Baldík, V. et al. (2016): Vysvětlivky k základním geologickým mapám České republiky 1 : 25 000 24-233 Ostrov u Macochy. MS Archiv České geologické služby.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Dvořák Jaroslav, 22.11.93
Updated by: Otava Jiří 05.11.11, Kukal Zdeněk 05.12.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 737 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-24]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/737.

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