General Characteristics

County (administration): South Bohemia Region
District (town): Tábor
Cadastre: Těchobuz
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2313, 23132
Geological region: Bohemian Moldanubicum
Accessibility: - special entry permit necessary (military area, quarry, private land)
Technical object: guarry
ID : 1401

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Moldanubicum, metamorphic units. Active quarry exposing bodies of metaquartzites, quartzitic paragneisses and biotitic paragneisses with some interlayers of erlan and amphibolite. Metaquartzites contain hornblende and biotite.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moldanubicum - Metamorphic units in Moldanubicum
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum
Subject: petrology, structural geology, mineralogy
Geological phenomenon: outcrop, fold
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: qurtzite, amphibolite, calc-silicate rock, paragneiss

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: exploitation

References

Suk M. a kol. (1979): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČSSR 1 : 25 000 list 23132 Cetoraz.- Ústřední ústav geologický Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Štěpánek Petr, 30.10.02
Updated by: Plíšek Antonín 23.01.05, Štěpánek Petr 14.09.10

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1401 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-02]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1401.

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