General Characteristics

County (administration): South Moravia Region
District (town): Blansko
Cadastre: Holštejn
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2423, 24233
Geological region: Drahany and Mírov Culm; Moravian and Mladeč karst
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
ID : 755

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Section through a clastic fill of the blind karst valley. Maximum thickness of Quatenary deposits is as much as 54 metres. Fluvial sediments are covered by a decalcified loess. Within the section also buried soils occur. Sinficant locality from a viewpoint of Quaternary geology and geomorphology.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Quaternary - Quaternary of denudation areas of Bohemian Massif
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - kvartér
Subject: geology, sedimentology, geomorphology
Geological phenomenon: swallow hole, karst
Genesis: aquatic (water activity), sedimentary
Rock: gravel-sand, loess

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: without conflicts

References

Dvořák J.(1961): Výsledky vrtného výzkumu v severní části Moravského krasu.-Anthropos, 14,93-95. Musil R.(1989): Fluviální sedimenty Holštejnského údolí.-Sborník prací ČGÚ ČSAV,23,Brno,65-75. Smolíková L.-Kadlec J.(1993): Interglaciál v holštejnském údolí v Moravském krasu.-Věstník ČGÚ,68,4,63-64.Praha. Štelcl O.(1962): Geomorfologické poměry Holštejnského poloslepého údolí v Moravském krasu.-Čsl.kras,13,31-49. Vilšer M.(1962): Zpráva o mocnosti kvartérních sedimentů v údolí potoka Bílá voda u Holštejna.-Zprávy o geol.výzk. v roce 1961,ÚÚG, Praha,268-269.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Kadlec Jaroslav, 20.11.93
Updated by: Otava Jiří 05.11.11

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 755 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-28]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/755.

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