Maun (island)

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Sailboat off the island of Maun

Maun is an island in the Adriatic Sea located southwest of Pag and northeast of Olib. Its area is 8.50 km2 (3.28 sq mi).[1]

After the first geological survey of the region, the initial verdict of Mamužić and Sokač (hr) was that small bauxite pockets at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary were present across the entire studied area, including on Maun, but apart from those at Novalja, no deposits were marked on the map because they were thought to be economically insignificant.[2]

There is a large karst sinkhole on Maun filled with terra rossa, in which water remains longer after rains, allowing it to be used for watering small livstock.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Duplančić Leder, Tea; Ujević, Tin; Čala, Mendi (June 2004). "Coastline lengths and areas of islands in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea determined from the topographic maps at the scale of 1 : 25 000" (PDF). Geoadria. 9 (1). Zadar: 5–32. doi:10.15291/geoadria.127. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  2. ^ Mamužić & Sokač 1973; Šebečić, Šinkovec & Trutin 1999, p. 17
  3. ^ Mamužić & Sokač 1973, p. 7

Further reading

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Name

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Geology

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  • Mamužić, P.; Sokač, B. (1973). Osnovna geološka karta SFRJ 1:100 000: Tumač za listove Molat L 33−138 i Silba L 33−126 [Basic Geological Map of SFRY 1:100 000: Legend for the sheets Molat L 33−138 and Silba L 33−126]. Zagreb: Geološki zavod.
  • Šebečić, Berislav; Šinkovec, Boris; Trutin, Mladen (1999-12-04). "Donjopaleogenski boksiti Vinišća, Ugljana, Silbe i Oliba" [Lower Paleogene Bauxites of Vinišće, Ugljan, Silba and Olib]. Rudarsko-geološko-naftni zbornik (in Serbo-Croatian). 11 (1): 17–26. ISSN 0353-4529.

History

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  • Peričić, Šime (2004). "Otok Maun u prošlosti" [The island Maun in the past] (PDF). Radovi Zavoda Za Povijesne Znanosti HAZU U Zadru (in Croatian) (46): 77–84. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
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44°25′34″N 14°55′26″E / 44.426°N 14.924°E / 44.426; 14.924