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Aven Surprise

Small 9-metre-deep shaft developed in Barremian limestone of Urgonian facies.

Signes 9m 9m

Small 9-metre-deep shaft developed in Barremian limestone of Urgonian facies.

Characteristics

  • Type: Pothole
  • Municipality: Signes
  • Length: 9 meters
  • Depth: 9 meters
  • Record updated:

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  1. Aven Surprise

    43.217162, 5.937685
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Description

Morphology

Small 9-metre-deep shaft.

Other details

Geology: Barremian limestone of Urgonian facies.

Sources:
* Article from the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipédia, in French (and access to other languages) > Barrémien: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr%C3%A9mien
* Article from the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipédia, in French (and access to other languages) > Faciès (géologie): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faci%C3%A8s_(g%C3%A9ologie)
* Article from the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipédia, in French (and access to other languages) > Urgonien: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urgonien
* Guillaume CHARDIN - CDS83, Fichier des cavités du Var > "Le Surprise" (number 2127466):
http://www.fichiertopo.fr/display.php?details=1&indexid=2301 (dead link)

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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/64772 · 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 BTH (Géologie), BTH (Description sommaire) · 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/64772 · data as of 2026