General Characteristics

County (administration): Zlín Region
District (town): Kroměříž
Cadastre: Kurovice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2531, 25314
Geological region: Fore-Magura, Rača (E from the Napajedla gateway), Bystrica & Bílé Karpaty units
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 691

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned but reactivated quarry. Outcrops of carbonate flysch sequences of the uppermost Jurassic and lower- most Cretaceous, overlain by marly Cretaceous sediments. They represent a great tectonic slice (olistolith) in the Magura flysch. Sedimentologically and tectonically significant locality.
Regional geologic unit: Carpathian - Flysch belt - Magurian group of nappes
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - jura - svrchní jura - malm, mezozoikum - křída - spodní křída
Subject: stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleontology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock, fossils fauna, stratigraphic boundary, stratotype
Genesis: anthropogenic (anthropogenic activity), sedimentary
Rock: marlstone, limestone, breccia

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: tourism

References

Benešová E., Eliáš M., Matějka A.(1968): Geology of the Kurovice klippe.-Sbor.geol.Věd,Geol.13,7-33.Praha; Benešová E.,Hanzlíková E.,Matějka A.(1962): Příspěvek ke geologii kurovického bradla.-Zpr.geol.Výzk.v r.1961,185-186.Praha; Eliáš E.,Eliášová H.(1985): Tlmačovské slieňovce. In Andrusov D.,Samuel O.: Stratigrafický slovník Západních Karpát 2, GÚDŠ, 272. Bratislava; Glocker E.F.(1841): Über den Jurakalk von Kurowitz in Mähren und über den darin vorkommenden Aptychus imbricatus.-Verh.Leopold.-Carol.Akad.naturf.,19/2/,73-308.Breslau-Bonn; Vašíček Z.(1922): Biostratigrafie lokality Kurovice.-MS-ČGÚ.Praha.; Vašíček, Z. (1992): Aptychi from Kurovice Klippe and their stratigraphic value. –Scripta Facultatis Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis Geology 22: 65-66; Košťák, M. – Vaňková, L. – Mazuch, M. – Bubík, M. – Reháková, D. (2018): Cephalopods, small vertebrate fauna and stable isotope (δ13C, δ18O) record from the Jurassic–Cretaceous transition (Calpionella Zone) of the Outer Western Carpathians, Kurovice quarry (Czech Republic). Cretaceous Research 92: 43–65.; Košťák, M. (2020): Kurovice, zatopený lom In: Čech, St. (ed.): Sborník abstraktů a exkurzní průvodce, 10. křídový seminář, Brno, 23.-25. 8. 2021, ČGS a MUNI, 43-46.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Vašíček Zdeněk, 25.11.93
Updated by: Lorencová Markéta 30.03.04, Krejčí Oldřich 19.10.12, Vajskebrová Markéta 27.10.21

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 691 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-03]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/691.

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