• Geological map of the Selška Valley 1: 25.000 (PDF; 51 MB)
• Geological profiles and columns - SLO (PDF; 29 MB)
• Geological profiles and columns - ENG (PDF; 39 MB)
• Interpreter (PDF; 16 MB)

The map covers the wider area of the Selška Valley, which extends west-east in the southern foothills of the Julian Alps, north-west of the Ljubljana Basin. The northern part of the territory covers the southern slopes of the Julian Alps, represented by the extensive Jelovica plateau. The southern part of the territory belongs to the Škofjeloše hills, which descend to the east towards the western part of the Sorško polje. The Sorško polje is the western edge of the Ljubljanska basin, bordering the northern slopes of the Polhograjsko hills to the south-east of Škofja Loka.

The Selška Valley area was chosen for further geological research for several reasons, among others. The first is that the area is characterised by a rapid alternation of very different lithologies and different structural units and elements, which made it impossible to show these geological features with sufficient precision in the OGK at a scale of 1:100,000. Furthermore, this area was chosen for its lithological and stratigraphical features. It is here that the rocks of three large and important palaeogeographical units are in contact: the Julian Carbonate Platform, the Slovenian Basin and the Adriatic-Dinaric Carbonate Platform. In each of these units, there were different depositional environments. In addition to the above, the Selška Valley area is also interesting from the point of view of active tectonics, drinking water intake and mineral exploitation. The rough picture of the spatial distribution of the rocks of the former palaeogeographical units only became clearer towards the end of the research for the SFRY 1 : 100 000 Geological Base Map. It was established that the sedimentary space of the Slovenian Basin ran through the whole of central Slovenia. The deep-marine rocks of the basin can thus be found from Kobarid in the west through Tolmin, Baška Grapa, the Selška Valley, Kamnik, the Tuhinjska Valley, the Zidanega Most, the Krško Hills, and from here onwards they also occur in the territory of Ivanščice, Medvednica, Žumberk and further on towards north-western Bosnia. South of the Slovenian Basin, the vast Adriatic-Dinaric carbonate platform with shallow-marine sedimentation persisted until the end of the Cretaceous. North of the basin, the Jurassic carbonate platform was formed in the Carnian and flooded by a pelagic sea in the Upper Liassic, which in the Middle Cenozoic became a fluvio-marine basin).

The topographic base used for the field maps was mainly 1 : 10,000 scale, and 1 : 5,000 scale for the eastern and south-eastern part of the territory. The geological map is drawn at a scale of 1 : 25 000. Profiles, columns and legends are presented in Slovene and English.

The geological map is accompanied by an interpreter in Slovenian.

Author Matevž Demšar

Year of publication: 2016

ISBN 978-961-6498-44-9 (card)

ISBN 978-961-6498-49-4 (interpreter)