General Characteristics

County (administration): South Bohemia Region
District (town): České Budějovice
Cadastre: Vrábče
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 3222, 32223
Geological region: Třeboň & České Budějovice basins
Accessibility: - special entry permit necessary (military area, quarry, private land)
Technical object: sand pit
ID : 1245

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Partly active sand pit. Tertiary sediments with abundant grains of moldavites in sands. Well known collecting locality of moldavites by professionals, devoted naturalists and also dealers.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Tertiary - Southern Bohemian Tertiary basins
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - terciér (paleogén - neogén)
Subject: mineralogy, sedimentology
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: open cast mining, collection, forestry

References

Chábera S. (l982): Geologické zajímavosti jižních Čech.- Jihočeská vlastivěda, str. l37 - l38, Jihočeské nakladatelství České Budějovice

Elaboration and Updating

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

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1245 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-30]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1245.

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