Aven de l'Anchois
Small cavity with a narrow entrance opening onto an inclined gallery overdeepened by a meander, its floor plugged by calcite.
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Aven de l'Anchois
Small cavity with a narrow entrance opening onto an inclined gallery overdeepened by a meander, its floor plugged by calcite.
Aumelas
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Small cavity with a narrow entrance opening onto an inclined gallery overdeepened by a meander, its floor plugged by calcite.
Description
Morphology
An entrance (0.6 m x 1 m) opens onto a fairly wide small step. It leads into an inclined gallery cut along the plane of the interstratal bedding (about 40°). This gallery is overdeepened by a deep meander.
Speleothems
The floor is plugged by calcite, and only a tiny hole suggests a possible continuation, but it appears very narrow.
Other details
It is probably an old water outlet, as evidenced by the gouge marks on the walls.
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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/74609 · 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/74609 · data as of 2026