General Characteristics

County (administration): Olomouc Region
District (town): Přerov
Cadastre: Olšovec
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2512, 25123
Geological region: Moravosilesian Devonian; Drahany, Mírov and Jeseníky Culm, incl. the Maleník block
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
ID : 3797

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: One of the most important ichnofaunistic localities af the Jeseníky Culmian. The quarry walls are mainly in greywackes and siltstone-claystone rhythmites of the Vikštejń Member of the Moravice Formation (upper Viséan age).
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moravosilesian region - Moravosilesian Palaeozoicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum, paleozoikum - karbon - spodní karbon - kulm - visé
Subject: geology, sedimentology, paleontology, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock, ripple marks, ichnofossil, sole markings , fossils-flora, vein
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: greywacke, shale, siltstone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered geological localities suggested for protection
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Bábek, O. – Kalvoda, J. – Otava, J. – Šimíček, D. (2014): Carboniferous Turbidite Systems of the Variscan Foreland: The Moravo-Silesian Culm Basin. Central European Meeting of Sedimentary Geology. 34 s. – Univerzita Palackého Olomouc.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Otava Jiří, 10.10.14
Updated by: Otava Jiří 29.04.15

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 3797 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-19]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/3797.

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