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Ježov – a proposed protected geological locality
Abstract
A complicated loess section with polygenetic palaeosol horizons (braunlehm, parabraunerde soil and chernozem) and their derivates (soil sediments) was documented near the Ježov village (southern Moravia). The loess sequence rests upon the Paleogene claystones and siltstones of the Zlín Formation at the right bank of the Hruškovice brook at the altitude of about 5-7 m above the floodplain. The Quaternary sedimentary sequence evidence extremely dynamic development indicated not only by intervening paleosols and soil sediments but in particular by numerous stratigraphical hiatuses. A preliminary pedostratigraphical interpretation correlates the fossil braunlehm (see Fig. 1) minimum with PK VII. That means the mentioned braunlehm corresponds to early Middle Pleistocene. A higher age is, however, not excluded. The morphostratigraphical position (just 5-7 m above the floodplain) indicates on the one hand a very strong upstream convergence and on the other a relative high age of the surrounding relief.
