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Údolí Oslavy a Chvojnice

General Characteristics

County (administration): South Moravia Region
District (town): Brno-venkov
Cadastre: Čučice, Ketkovice, Březník, Kladeruby, Kralice, Kuroslepy, Mohelno, Sedlec, Senorady, Sudice, Zňátky.
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2433,2431, 24332,24313,24311
Geological region: Letovice, Krhovice, Nectava and Svinov-Vranová crystalline complexes; Moravicum; crystalline complex of Miroslav horst; Brunovistulicum
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 767

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Meandering river channel with numerous outcrops on its walls. Rocks of a Moravian parts of the Moldanubicum are exposed, as granulites, amphibolites, migmatites and gneisses (Bíteš Gneiss). In a lower valley part old exploitation of a crystalline limestone and graphite. Geological reference locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moldanubicum - Metamorphic units in Moldanubicum, Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moravosilesian region - Moravicum
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum
Subject: geology, petrology, geomorphology, mining and mining impacts
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock, meander, river channel, rock, block field
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism), aquatic (water activity)
Rock: granulite, amphibolite, gneiss, migmatite, orthogneiss, marble, dolomite, serpentinite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature reserve
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 and Biological Locality)
Conflicts of interests: recreation, agriculture

References

Čech L.,Šumpich J., Zabloudil V. a kol. (2002): Jihlavsko In: Mackovčin P., Sedláček M.(eds): Chráněná území ČR, Svazek VII. Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR a EkoCentrum Brno,str 303, Praha.; Peštál, F. (1991): Štoly na grafit v Čučicích. Naším krajem, 3, 48-50.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Hanžl Pavel, 23.11.93
Updated by: Gürtlerová Pavla 28.08.12, Buriánek David 09.11.12, Kukal Zdeněk 28.11.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 767 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-03-28]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/767.

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Kristýna Hrdličková (Buriánková), 2000


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