General Characteristics

County (administration): South Bohemia Region
District (town): Prachatice
Cadastre: Svatá Maří
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2234, 22344
Geological region: Šumava Moldanubicum - districts ST, PT, CK, CB, PI
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: guarry
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 2083

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Mldanubicum, metamorphic units, Šumava Mts. Rocky outcrops and part of the small abandoned quarry. Nature Monument protecting thin granite dyke within biotite paragneisses. So called "tourmaline sun", i.e. fibrous spheroidal aggregates of black tourmaline crystals, can be found there as real geological curiosity.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moldanubicum - Metamorphic units in Moldanubicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: lithology, mineralogy, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: dyke, rock
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism), magmatic
Rock: granite, migmatite

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 Locality)
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Albrecht J. a kol. (2003): Českobudějovicko. In: Mackovčin P. a Sedláček M.(eds.): Chráněná území ČR, svazek VIII. Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR a EkoCentrum Brno, str, Praha. Albrecht J. a kol. (2003): Českobudějovicko. In: Mackovčin P. a Sedláček M.(eds.): Chráněná území ČR, svazek VIII. Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR a EkoCentrum Brno, str.347 Praha.; Dudíková, B. et al. (2014): Vysvětlivky ke geologické mapě 1 : 25 000 22-344 Vlachovo Březí.- Archiv ČGS.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Jirková Pavlína, 09.11.09
Updated by: Gürtlerová Pavla 29.07.10, Seifert Antonín 14.09.10, Kukal Zdeněk 08.11.12, Gürtlerová Pavla 29.04.14

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2083 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-18]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2083.

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