A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve: Studia Naturalia 5. (Szeged, 2009)

Summary

In the administrative area of Kelebia — The fishing lake of Kelebia (and the joining grazing lands of Kelebia) — Bácsborista meadow (on the border of Asotthalom and Kelebia) In the administrative area of Mórahalom — The wetlands near Tanaszi — Lake Madarász — Lake Nagyszéksós In the administrative area of Ottömös — Baromjárás For the sake of completeness, the following areas are also outlined: In the administrative area of Asotthalom — Kiss Ferenc Memorial Forest — The marshland of Asotthalom Nature Reserve — Bogárzó In the administrative area of Mórahalom — The wetland of Csipak The main topics of the summary Geological points of interest In the beginning of the survey we listed the geological points of interest. The meadow limestone can be found at several points of the countryside. This building material, which is typical of the Great Plain had been used here for many years. The earliest temple of Szer monastery was built of it in the 11th century, the archeologists found the meadow limestone during the excavations of a Roman style church in Szöreg, and a 14th century church in Csengele. On the Szabadka banks of the Körös-ér, the mining of the turf started almost a hundred years ago. In Asotthalom, they started to extract the "peat mould" since the 1960's (Juhász-Szécsy 1970). Back then, the peat layer was several metres thick. The mining was going on by fits and starts until the mid 1990's. A suprising discovery was made: a strip-like limonite ore concretion deposit was found, which is 15-20 metres wide and about 2 kilometres long. It starts at the borders of the Süveg-Magyari forest and goes along the Kőrös-ér up to the borders of Bács-Kiskun county. The most of these concretions we found are