General Characteristics

County (administration): South Bohemia Region
District (town): Český Krumlov
Cadastre: Besednice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 3224, 32242
Geological region: Třeboň & České Budějovice basins
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: sand pit
ID : 1243

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Two abandoned sand pits. Tertiaty sediments of the Třeboň basin with abundant grains of moldavites. Mineralogically and sedimentologically significant locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Tertiary - Southern Bohemian Tertiary basins
Stratigraphy: kenozoikum - terciér (paleogén - neogén)
Subject: mineralogy, economic geology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock, mineral
Genesis: anthropogenic (anthropogenic activity)
Rock: gravel-sand

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 (declared as Geological and Biological Locality)
Conflicts of interests: collection, forestry, open cast mining

References

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

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Plíšek Antonín, 02.08.01
Updated by: Poňavič Michal 12.07.10

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1243 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-24]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1243.

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