General Characteristics

County (administration): Zlín Region
District (town): Uherské Hradiště
Cadastre: Starý Hrozenkov
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 3512, 35122
Geological region: Fore-Magura, Rača (E from the Napajedla gateway), Bystrica & Bílé Karpaty units
Technical object: guarry
ID : 704

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned quarry with an outcrop of a sill of olivine trachybasalt 5 m thick with typical columnar jointing. Surrounding sediments belong to the sandstone lithofacies of the Svodnice Formation of the Vlára Development of the Bílé Karpaty Unit. Stratigraphically and petrologically interesting locality.
Regional geologic unit: Carpathian - Flysch belt - Magurian group of nappes, Carpathian - Flysch belt - Tertiary Volcanic rocks
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - terciér (paleogén - neogén)
Subject: stratigraphy, volcanology, petrology, geology, sedimentology

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) - Bílé Karpaty
Conflicts of interests: waste disposal, reclamation

References

Stráník, Z. et al. (1993): The contact of the North European Epivariscan Platform with the West Carpathians. - J. Cz. Ceol. Soc., 38, 1/2, 21-30. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Krejčí Oldřich, 21.11.93
Updated by: Plíšek Antonín 03.02.03

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 704 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-29]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/704.

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