
Avenc M-1
Escletxa de 31 metres de fondària i 310 metres de recorregut a Montcortès, (Baix Pallars).
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Avenc M-1
Escletxa de 31 metres de fondària i 310 metres de recorregut a Montcortès, (Baix Pallars).
Baix Pallars · Pallars Sobirà
Length: 310 m · Depth: 31 m
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A 31-metre-deep and 310-metre-long fissure at Montcortès (Baix Pallars), a diaclase with several levels and unstable rocks.
Topographic
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Description
Morphology
It is an important diaclase that fractures the terrain very close to the track. Externally it is about a hundred metres long, it is full of vegetation that greatly masks its location, it has different levels and an important clastic process with unstable rocks everywhere.
Progression
A couple of small drops take us into the beginning of the cavity; this continues with fallen blocks that become wedged in the diaclases having to be overcome, and this is the general pattern throughout the cavity. From time to time some intersections with other diaclases are found that will lead to lower levels. Several exits to the outside are also found.
History
On 26 to 30 March 1970 a team from the SIE of the CEA explores the Forat de Montcortès (98 metres) and the Forat del Vicenç (-10 metres). Later, on 6 and 7 March 1976, another SIE team in which some of the members of the previous team take part explores, in the serra de Peracalç, between the estany de Montcortès and Peracalç, three cavities of (-30 metres, -11 metres and -7 metres) depth respectively, which it names Forats de la Grata no. 1, 2 and 3; this information remains in the SIE archives but nothing about it is ever published. Very probably they correspond to one of the many holes explored by the GEB in this sector.
In 1980 the GEB begins a series of explorations on this flat area that lies to the N of the roca de Perauba and to the W of the dolmen de Perauba, and which the GEB calls pla del campament, because it is the spot where they set up camp during the explorations; these would last until 1988.
Later they return in September 1994, and in July 1995 they accompany the archaeologists from the department of history of pre-capitalist societies and of social anthropology of the UAB, returning again in November 1999.
In the course of these years, the forest mass has grown considerably, which also complicates the location of the cavities.
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Bibliography
- Porcel Caro,Enric.(1990).-”Exploracions a la Serra Magdalena ”.Cavernas (22):49-57. GE Badalona.
- Porcel Caro,Enric; Miret Pérez, Francesc.(2008).-”Cavernes d'interès arqueològic”. Cavernas (27):58-63. GE Badalona.
- Navarro,J.(1971).-”Relación cronológica de las exploraciones realizadas por miembros de la SIE en 1970”. EspeleoSie (10):75-87. SIE – CE Àliga. Barcelona.
- Fitxa actualitzada el novembre de 2017, coordenades, noves fotografies i dades facilitades per Enric Peradalta Rocha (GIRES).
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