General Characteristics

County (administration): Moravia-Silesian Region
District (town): Frýdek-Místek
Cadastre: Čeladná
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2523, 25232
Geological region: Subsilesian & Silesian units
Accessibility: - access without footpath
ID : 884

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Kněhyně Hill slope is built of thick-bedded sandstones of the Godula Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Silesian Unit). Slope movements opened a chaotic system of joints and thus formed one of the largest pseudokarst caves in Czech Republic (280 m long and 57.5 m deep).
Regional geologic unit: Carpathian - Flysch belt - Outer (Menilit-Krosněny) group of nappes
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - spodní křída
Subject: structural geology, zoology, engineering geology
Geological phenomenon: pseudocrast cave
Genesis: gravitational
Rock: sandstone, claystone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature monument 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) - Beskydy
Conflicts of interests: tourism

References

Wagner, J. et al. (1990): Jeskyně Moravskoslezských Beskyd a okolí.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Šulgan František, 22.11.93
Updated by: Bubík Miroslav 23.10.12

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 884 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-02]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/884.

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