Starý Hrozenkov
General Characteristics
County (administration):
Zlínský kraj
District (town):
Uherské Hradiště
Village:
Starý Hrozenkov
Cadastre:
Starý Hrozenkov
Map sheets:
35-12 Strání, 35-122 Starý Hrozenkov
Technical object:
quarry
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:
Carpathians > Flysch belt > Tertiary alkaline Carpathian Volcanics;
Carpathians > Flysch belt > Magura group of nappes
Stratigraphy:
Tertiary
Subject:
stratigraphy, volcanology, petrology, geology, sedimentology
Geological phenomenon:
Genesis:
Rock:
Territorial protection
Level of protection:
Registred geological localities suggested to protection in Protected landscape area
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas):
Bílé Karpaty
Conflicts of interests:
reclamation, waste disposal
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:
Oldřich Krejčí, 21.11.1993
Updated by:
Plíšek Antonín, 03.02.2003
Citation
The database Important geological localities of the Czech Republic: 704 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2023-06-16]. Available from: https:// lokality.geology.cz/704.
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Assessment
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Geological importance:
geoturistic value
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