A significant loess section near Čejkovice (southern Moravia)

 

Pavel Havlíček, Libuše Smolíková, Michal Vachek

Geoscience Research Reports 35, 2002 (GRR for 2001), pages 127–128
Map sheets: Hustopeče (34-21)

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Abstract

About 5 m thick loess sequence with three intervening palaeosols is exposed in the eastern part of the Čejkovice village. The lowest palaeosol (3) represents a typical braunlehm. The younger soil (2) is of chernozem type and the upper one represents again a typical earthified braunlehm. Stratigraphically both braunlehms represent either PK VII (early Middle Pleistocene); nevertheless a higher age can not be excluded. Several breaks (hiatuses) in deposition were identified within the loess sequence which strongly resembles that at Ježov. The occurrence of typical chernozems (No. 2), analogous typologically with those of Upper Pleistocene, are very rare in such a stratigraphical context and are therefore, of prime importance.