CH19
Large ice shaft on a fault in the Senonian, whose descent passes beneath an ice plug down to a sealed floor.
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CH19
Large ice shaft on a fault in the Senonian, whose descent passes beneath an ice plug down to a sealed floor.
Samoëns
Length: 10 m · Depth: 5 m
Updated record
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Large ice shaft on a fault in the Senonian, whose descent passes beneath an ice plug down to a sealed floor.
Description
Morphology
Large ice shaft on a fault, opening in the Senonian. The entrance is between wall and ice. An ice ledge at -4 m gives access to a ventilated ice chute 70 cm in diameter. After 6 metres of descent, the ice disappears: one is beneath the ice plug, at the top of a chamber whose walls are not all easily discernible. The bottom of the shaft is occupied by ice. Two upper entrances remain to be seen.
Progression
The descent continues in the middle of this large shaft. It is possible to descend a few more metres between ice and névé, but everything is sealed.
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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/554 · 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 GS Vulcains (Description sommaire), BTH (Morphologie et géologie) · 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/554 · data as of 2026