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Avenc de la Formació

Avenc de la Formació

Petita cavitat subvertical de 22 m. de fondària a Mont-ral

Mont-ral • Alt Camp90m22m

Small subvertical cavity 22 m deep in Mont-ral, located and explored by the AAEET de Valls on 12 February 1995.

Characteristics

Location

Going along the road from Alcover to Capafonts (TV 7041), before reaching Mont-ral and a few metres before reaching Km. 10, an asphalted track at first branches off, crossing the Pla de les Perdius. We will always continue straight, ignoring the forks, until the track ends in a widening of it in the middle of the forest, on the ridge of the serra d'en Clarà. From this point and in a N direction a path leads us to the avenc del Cabirol. From here we must follow in direction O25N along a path opened through the thick forest for a little more than a hundred metres, where we will find the entrances of the avencs NR-6, NR5 and NR-4. From the latter we will follow the path in direction N33Oest for 90 metres, where we will reach the upper part of a cliff of about 10 metres drop, right in front we have a rock wall that makes the space occupied by the cliff look like a channel, at the base of this the avenc de l'Escletxa opens, we must descend by rappel to the entrance of the avenc de l'Escletxa, from here a ramp begins that descends the channel, at the end of this we find the avenc de la Dolina. We pass over this and head towards the E through a kind of valley, 35 metres away and on the left at the foot of a wall we will find the two entrances of the avenc de la Sala, we will continue towards the E and 35 metres further on we will find in the very middle of this valley the entrance of the avenc de la Formació.

Mapa

Entrances

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  1. Avenc de la Formació

    Elevation: 716 m

    41.300139, 1.111055
    UTM 31T (ETRS89) 341855 4573797
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Photos

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Description

Morphology

A small pit leads us to a room from which two ramps emerge in opposite directions. The other ramp descends steeply and after several drops places us in an elongated room, at the end of which an impassable narrow joint opens.

Speleothems

Towards the W., the ramp leads us to a gallery with many lithogenic formations and after a few metres it turns in the opposite direction and by an ascending ramp places us again at the base of the entrance pit.

History

Located and explored by members of the AAEET de Valls on 12 February 1995.

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Bibliography

  • Dades inèdites aportades per Ramon Sendra.
  • Fitxa actualitzada el maig de 2018, dades, coordenades, situació i fotografies, facilitades per Juli Serrano, Montse Roca (SIE-CEA) i Francesc Rubinat (ERE-CEC).

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