General Characteristics

County (administration): South Bohemia Region
District (town): Prachatice
Cadastre: Čábuze
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 2234, 22341
Geological region: Šumava Moldanubicum - districts ST, PT, CK, CB, PI
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: guarry
ID : 4126

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Abandoned wall quarry about 50 x 40 m, wall up to 15 m high. There's an old lime kiln. The quarry is used as an improvised shooting range. Rock: marble (crystalline limestone. Description: Light gray to almost white, small, medium and coarse grained (crystalline) limestone. Marble intersects abundant veins of pegmatite to 2 m (plain with biotite), in places it is in contact. Pyroxenic erlan banded with contact, the actual contact with the supposed migmatite is not revealed. The body has a ca 150 ° direction.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moldanubicum - Metamorphic units in Moldanubicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum až proterozoikum
Subject: economic geology, mining and mining impacts, lithology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism), anthropogenic (anthropogenic activity)
Rock: marble, dolomite

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: without conflicts

References

Žáček, V. et al. (2021): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě České republiky 22-341, list Vacov. - Archiv České geologické služby, Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Gürtlerová Pavla, 15.05.18
Updated by: Žáček Vladimír 09.04.20, Žáček Vladimír 23.01.20

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 4126 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-25]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/4126.

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