General Characteristics

County (administration): South Bohemia Region
District (town): Strakonice
Cadastre: Modlešovice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2232, 22324
Geological region: Šumava Moldanubicum - districts ST, PT, CK, CB, PI
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: placer
ID : 465

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Large placer area in the Otava River floodplain. Gold was washed here as soon as by the end of a Bronze Age, most intensive activities took place in medieval times. Gravelly terrace sediments were richer in gold and are already exploited. Very interesting morphology with relics of gold washing activities.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Quaternary - Quaternary of denudation areas of Bohemian Massif
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - kvartér
Subject: mining and mining impacts, mineralogy, economic geology
Geological phenomenon: flood plaine
Genesis: aquatic (water activity), sedimentary
Rock: gravel-sand, gravel

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

References

Farský R.(1926): Dnešní rýžování zlata na Strakonicku. Vesmír, roč.4,str.76-78.Praha. Jirkovský R.(1947): Chemický a nerostný průzkum otavských zlatonosných a monasitových písků. Věstník Stát.geol.úst.republiky Československé, roč.22,str.315-327.Praha. Kudrnáč J.(1981): Rýžování zlata na Strakonicku (výzkum pravěkého a středověkého rýžoviště v Modlešicích). Muzeum středního Pootaví Strakonice, 36 str.Strakonice. Morávek P. et al.(1992): Zlato v Českém masívu. ČGÚ, 248 str.Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Cicha Ivan, 03.11.94
Updated by: Seifert Antonín 16.09.10

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 465 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-27]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/465.

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