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Paleo- environment in the Lower Badenian at the Šlapanice locality (Carpathian Foredeep, Moravia, Czech Republic)
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| Year of publication | 2026 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | The Šlapanice locality east of Brno is an active deposit of Lower Badenian sediments, belonging to the southern part of the Carpathian Foredeep. The mined rocks are represented by blue-grey massive silty clays (“tegels”) over 30 m thick, in which sandy layers and secondarily precipitated gypsum occur. The clays are overlain by gravel and gravelly sands about 2 m in thickness, the uppermost 3-5 m of the profile are represented by loess. The clays are very rich in fossils - foraminifers, sponges (spicules), mollusks, echinoderms (spines of echinoids), ostracods, bony fish (bones, scales, teeth, otoliths) and ichnofossils. Within the research of fossil seagrass/seaweed meadows, the calcareous clays at Šlapanice were studied by an integrated approach including paleontology (foraminifers, calcareous nannoplankton, molluscs, palynology), sedimentology and organic geochemistry (n-alkanes). This contribution presents the results of this study to date. |
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