General Characteristics

County (administration): South Bohemia Region
District (town): Tábor
Cadastre: Borkovice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2242, 22424
Geological region: Třeboň & České Budějovice basins
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: sand pit
ID : 1403

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: South Bohemian basins, Cretaceous. Sand pit exposing mostly coarse grained kaolinitic sandstones with some interlayers of finer grained sandstones and conglomerates. Diagonal and even cross bedding are distinct. Sandstones belong to the upper part of the Klikov Formation with local thickness of 50 m. Underlying bedrock consists of biotitic paragneiss. Sandstoners are of fluvial origin.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Cretaceous - Southern Bohemian basins - Cretaceous
Stratigraphy: mezozoikum - křída - svrchní křída
Subject: stratigraphy, petrology, sedimentology, paleontology
Geological phenomenon: fossils-flora, bed
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: sand, sandstone

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Nature monument
Additional information: See the Digital register of the Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic AOPK ČR
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: A - Protected Area (geology is important aspect of Biological declared Locality )
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Malecha A. (1976): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČSSR 1 : 25 000 list 22424 Zálší.- Ústřední ústav geologický Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Štěpánek Petr, 05.11.02
Updated by: Plíšek Antonín 23.01.05, Poňavič Michal 16.09.10, Vajskebrová Markéta 03.08.20

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1403 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-03]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1403.

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