General Characteristics

County (administration): Zlín Region
District (town): Uherské Hradiště
Cadastre: Medlovice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2444, 24444
Geological region: Pouzdřany, Ždánice & Zdounky units; Rača unit of the Chřiby Mts.
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 644

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Old quarry exposing sediments of the Rača Unit of the Magura Nappe. It consists of several folded lithostratigraphic units. Stratigraphically significant locality.
Regional geologic unit: Carpathian - Flysch belt - Magurian group of nappes
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - neogén - miocén - svrchní miocén
Subject: economic geology, stratigraphy, petrology, geology, quaternary geology
Geological phenomenon: porcelanites, characteristic rock
Genesis: metamorphic (contact metamorphism)
Rock: porcelanite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: 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: agriculture, open cast mining

References

Czudek, T. - Havlíček, P. - Kovanda, J. (1985): Paleogeografický význam náplavového kužele JV. od Boršic u Buchlovic. - Čas. min. geol., 30, 2, 185-198. Praha. Čtyroký, P. - Novák, F. (1978): Flyš a medlovické porcelanity v jižní části Chřibů. - Čas. min. geol., 23, 1, 77-86. Praha. Sladký, J. (2019): Červený "kráter" u Medlovic. Malovaný kraj, 55, 2, 29.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Havlíček Pavel, 29.11.93
Updated by: Tomanová Petrová Pavla 29.10.10, Žáček Vladimír 06.06.11

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 644 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-27]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/644.

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