Aven de Fertalières
Cavity with a narrow entrance opening onto Un pit-fissure, with Un porch leading to an elongated chamber and Un subvertical earthy step.
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Aven de Fertalières
Cavity with a narrow entrance opening onto Un pit-fissure, with Un porch leading to an elongated chamber and Un subvertical earthy step.
Cournonterral
Depth: 10 m
Updated record
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Cavity with a narrow entrance opening onto Un pit-fissure, with Un porch leading to an elongated chamber and Un subvertical earthy step.
Description
Morphology
A narrow entrance (0.4 m x 0.3 m) opens onto Un fine pit-fissure ending in a scree cone. Un porch opening in the wall at the foot of the entrance pit allows access to an elongated chamber. In this chamber, a constriction leads to Un very small recess where there was Un step blocked by Un hollow scree. The step in question takes the form of Un subvertical earthy pit.
Other details
During the first exploration, this cavity was stifling and filled with CO2. It is true that it opens at low altitude. The CO2 is now in the lower step, making any exploration of the second step impossible for the moment (2000). Ventilation is planned.
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Contains information from Grottocenter (Wikicaves), grottocenter.org, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/), modified. · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/74733 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected] · data as of 2026 · Source: Grottocenter (Association Wikicaves), worldwide collaborative cave database (grottocenter.org), modified. CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Grottocenter (Wikicaves) · Text by Marc Jupin (Description générale) · adapted by Espeleoworld (normalized, translated); the adaptation is licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/74733 · data as of 2026