General Characteristics

County (administration): South Moravia Region
District (town): Blansko
Cadastre: Lažánky, Ostrov, Suchdol, Těchov, Vilémovice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2423, 24233,24411
Geological region: Drahany and Mírov Culm; Moravian and Mladeč karst
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 746

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Karst territory in the very centre of the Moravian Karst. Rock basement consists of Middle Devonian limestones of the Macocha Formation. Limestones are intensively karstified and thus many superficial and subterranean karst phenomena occur. Complicated system of caverns, largest in the whole Czechia. The area is registered as a National Nature Reserve of the Protected Lanbdscape Area Moravský kras - the Moravian Karst.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moravosilesian region - Moravosilesian Palaeozoicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - devon
Subject: botany, geomorphology, stratigraphy, archeology, geology, history, hydrogeology, mining and mining impacts, quaternary geology, mineralogy, paleontology, petrology, sedimentology, structural geology, zoology
Geological phenomenon: karst, mudcracks, ripple marks, outwash fan, unconformity, incrustation, block field, concretion , karst cave, krast pit, meander, pothole, spring, river source, abyss, river terrace, fluvial terrace, landslide, rock arch, horizontal section, castellated ridge, rock chimney, slickenside, natural window, rock salient, rock plate, rock schelter, cliff, rock pillar, varnished stone, gorge, gully, scree, scree field, karren, slickenside, waterfall, fold, bed, sinkhole, swallow hole, fossils fauna, fossils-flora, fault, dyke, stony organ
Genesis: anthropogenic (anthropogenic activity), organogenic (activity of organisms), sedimentary, aquatic (water activity), gravitational, weathering
Rock: limestone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: National nature reserve in Protected landscape area
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)
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Moravský kras
Conflicts of interests: tourism, water resources, agriculture

References

Musil, R. et al. (1993): Moravský kras, labyrinty poznání. - Adamov., Kříž J., 2000: Lower Palaeozoic, Upper Cretaceous and Quaternary of Bohemia. - Excursion guidebook, European Assotiation for the Conservation of the Geological Heritage, June 1st - June 9th, str. 39 - 40. Praha. + informace ze Správy jeskyní Moravského krasu.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Hanžl Pavel, 23.11.93
Updated by: Otava Jiří 03.11.08, Gürtlerová Pavla 05.11.08, Gürtlerová Pavla 03.10.17, Kukal Zdeněk 12.12.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 746 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-19]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/746.

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