General Characteristics

County (administration): Moravia-Silesian Region
District (town): Bruntál
Cadastre: Heřmanovice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1513, 15131
Geological region: Silesicum and Žulová massif
ID : 861

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Rock and adjacent talus. Important paleontological locality in quartzites. Common brachiopods. Also remarkable tectonic features, as several systems of fold.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moravosilesian region - Silezicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - devon
Subject: structural geology, paleontology, stratigraphy
Geological phenomenon: cliff, scree, fossils fauna, fold
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: qurtzite

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) - Jeseníky
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Chlupáč, I. (1989): Fossil communities in the metamorphic Lower Devonian of the Hrubý Jeseník Mts., Czechoslovakia. - N. Jb. Geol. Palaont., Abh., 177, 3, 367-392. Issacson, P. E. - Chlupáč, I. (1984): Significance of a Tropidoleptus assemblage from the Devonian of the Moravo-Silesian region, Czechoslovakia. - Čas. Mineral. Geol., 29, 141-154. Praha. Wilschowitz, J. (1931): Erste Bericht über eine neue Fundstatte unterdevonischen Fossilien im Ost-Ulrich (Altvatergebirge). - Mitt. naturw. Ver. Troppau, 23, 1-16. Troppau. Wilschowitz, J. (1932): Die Unterdevonfauna vom Alten Berg und Hofehau im Ost-Urlich (Altvatergebirge). - Mitt. naturw. Ver. Troppau, 24/25, 7-44. Troppau.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Chlupáč Ivo, 29.06.93
Updated by: Pecina Vratislav 03.06.11

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 861 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-27]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/861.

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