General Characteristics

County (administration): South Moravia Region
District (town): Brno-město
Cadastre: Bohunice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2434, 24342
Geological region: Brno agglomeration, Tišnov &Kuřim basins
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: loam pit
ID : 783

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Old brickyard exposing eolian sediments with buried soils overlying fluvial deposits. Reference section which was investigated also by paleomagnetic methods. The oldest sediments are of pre-Quaternary age. World-known section of Lower- and Middle Pleistocene loess.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Quaternary - Quaternary of deposition areas of Bohemian Massif
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - kvartér
Subject: stratigraphy, sedimentology, quaternary geology
Geological phenomenon: lithological boundary
Genesis: aeolian (wind activity)
Rock: loess, loess loam, gravel-sand

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: National 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: vegetation

References

Zeman, A. (1992): New data on the Quaternary at Červený kopec hill in Brno. - Scripta, Vol. 22, Geology, 123-131. Praha.; Buriánek, D. et al.(2013): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČR 1:25 000, list 24-342 Brno-jih. Česká geologická služba.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Havlíček Pavel, 29.11.93
Updated by: Tomanová Petrová Pavla 30.10.03, Tomanová Petrová Pavla 14.11.08, Tomanová Petrová Pavla 10.12.08

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 783 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-26]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/783.

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