General Characteristics

County (administration): South Bohemia Region
District (town): České Budějovice
Cadastre: Ločenice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 3224, 32242
Geological region: Třeboň & České Budějovice basins
Accessibility: - special entry permit necessary (military area, quarry, private land)
Technical object: sand pit
ID : 1244

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned sand pit. Tertiary sediments of the Třeboň Basin with common grains of moldavites. One of well known collecting localities of moldavites. Mineralogically and sedimentologically significant locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Tertiary - Southern Bohemian Tertiary basins
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - terciér (paleogén - neogén)
Subject: mineralogy, economic geology
Geological phenomenon: mineral
Genesis: anthropogenic (anthropogenic activity)
Rock: gravel-sand

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered geological localities suggested for protection
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Conflicts of interests: forestry, collection, water resources, exploitation

References

Chábera S. (l982): Geologické zajímavosti jižních Čech.- Jihočeská vlastivěda, str. l35-l37, Jihočeské nakladatelství České Budějovice

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Plíšek Antonín, 06.11.01
Updated by: Poňavič Michal 12.07.10

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1244 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-30]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1244.

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