[5] Material ejected from the impact crater includes moldavite, which was strewn across parts of Germany, the Czech Republic and Austria.

Zippe (1836) first used the term "moldavite", derived from the Vltava (Moldau) river in Bohemia (the Czech Republic), from where the first described pieces came.

[6] In 1900, Franz Eduard Suess pointed out that the gravel-size moldavites exhibited curious pittings and wrinkles on the surface, which could not be due to the action of water, but resembled the characteristic markings on many meteorites.

He attributed the material to a cosmic origin and regarded moldavites as a special type of meteorite for which he proposed the name of tektite.

[7] Based on an analysis of 23 Bohemian and Moravian samples, in 1966 it was theorised that variations in their composition derived from fractional volatilization, and were not similar in origin to sedimentary or igneous rocks.

[9] Moldavites' highly textured surfaces are now known to be the result of pervasive etching by naturally occurring CO2 and humic acids present in groundwater.

[10] Because of their extremely low water content and chemical composition, the current consensus among earth scientists is that moldavites were formed about 14.7 million years ago during the impact of a giant meteorite in the present-day Nördlinger Ries crater.

In Moravia, moldavite occurrences are restricted to an area roughly bounded by the towns of Třebíč, Znojmo and Brno.

The majority of other localities in southern Moravia are associated with sediments of Miocene as well as Pleistocene rivers that flowed across this area more or less to the southeast, similar to the present streams of Jihlava, Oslava and Jevišovka.