General Characteristics

County (administration): South Bohemia Region
District (town): Tábor
Cadastre: Lžín
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2331, 23313
Geological region: Bohemian Moldanubicum
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: sand pit
ID : 1399

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Bohemian Moldanubicum, Tertiary basins. Partly active sand pit occassionally exloited sands and gravels exposing sands and gravels. Tertiary sands with gravel interlayers. They are typical with their subrounded clasts of quartzites and turmalinites. They represent stratigraphical analogy of Tertiary moldavite-bearing sequence of the South Bohemian basins.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Tertiary - Southern Bohemian Tertiary basins
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - terciér (paleogén - neogén)
Subject: economic geology, sedimentology, stratigraphy, petrology, mineralogy
Geological phenomenon: outcrop
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: sand, gravel, quartzite, volcanic glass

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: C - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a registration in the database of CGS
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Tomas J. a kol. (1981): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČSSR 1 : 25 000 list 23313 Soběslav. - Ústřední ústav geologický Praha.; Řehounek J., Řehounková K. & Prach K. (2010): Ekologická obnova území narušených těžbou nerostných surovin a průmyslovými deponiemi. Calla, České Budějovice.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Štěpánek Petr, 30.10.02
Updated by: Plíšek Antonín 23.01.05, Štěpánek Petr 13.09.10, Vajskebrová Markéta 02.07.20

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1399 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-02]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1399.

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