Cova d'en Joan Petit
A 25 m long cave in the Serra de l'Obac, with a long ascending corridor of about 16 m and a 15 m joint.
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Cova d'en Joan Petit
A 25 m long cave in the Serra de l'Obac, with a long ascending corridor of about 16 m and a 15 m joint.
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Length: 25 m
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A 25 m long cave in the Serra de l'Obac, with a long ascending corridor of about 16 m and a 15 m joint.
Topographic
Espeleoindex · CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ · Image © its author.
Description
Morphology
A long ascending corridor, about 16 metres long, with side walls 6 metres high, leads us to the cave entrance. The entrance is 3 metres high by one wide; these dimensions diminish as we enter, until we come to a narrow passage raised off the floor and covered by flowstone that makes progress difficult. The joint is 15 metres long and is interrupted in its final part by small rock bridges that make progress even more difficult.
Speleothems
The cave entrance is quite covered with limestone formations in a state of decalcification.
Hydrology
The narrow passage leads out into a fairly deep plunge pool (1 metre); once past this, very often full of water, we descend a step that places us in a fairly narrow joint where we can stand upright.
Progression
Progress through the narrow joint is eased by a small rounded widening of the floor that precedes an increasingly narrow continuation.
History
Possibly discovered and explored by speleologists from Sabadell around the early 1980s. There was no record of it until members of the SIS del CE Terrassa rediscovered it in early 1986.
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Bibliography
Badiella, X. (1990).- “La Cova dels Talps i altres cavitats de les rodalies” Exploracions (14): 47-50. EC de Gràcia. Barcelona.
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