Esquerda de la Bauma Petita
A fissure of just over 11 m of vertical drop in the Coma Oriola (la Masella, Cerdanya), a residual cavity bearing witness to a glacial past.
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Esquerda de la Bauma Petita
A fissure of just over 11 m of vertical drop in the Coma Oriola (la Masella, Cerdanya), a residual cavity bearing witness to a glacial past.
Urús · Cerdanya
Length: 14 m · Depth: 11 m
Updated record
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A fissure of just over 11 m of vertical drop in the Coma Oriola (la Masella, Cerdanya), a residual cavity bearing witness to a glacial past.
Topographic
Espeleoindex · CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ · Image © its author.
Photos
Espeleoindex · CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ · Image © its author.
Description
Morphology
Vertical fissure in the cliff wall, which can be entered after climbing over some large blocks that block the lower part of the entrance. The entire vertical passage has a vertical drop of 11.5 metres.
Progression
To enter it one must climb over some large blocks that block the lower part of the entrance.
Other details
All the caves and fissures located in the area are residual cavities, probably witnesses to other climatic circumstances. It is undeniable that the valley bears the imprint of a glacial past, and even today the action of ice widening the fracture structure is responsible for small cavities and for the great extent of these fragmentation scree slopes.
The original physiognomy of the Coma Oriola (according to the ICGC: Comaoriola), has been profoundly altered by the imprint of the ski resort, since a piste runs through this valley.
In summer and therefore outside the season, excavators, concrete mixers, etc. have extraordinarily transformed the bed of the basin, widening it and modifying its margins, causing vegetation and original soils to disappear, burying channels...
History
Although some of the cavities had certainly been observed by skiers and mountaineers who pass through the area, they had never been the object of speleologists until on 16 July 2015, members of the grup de l'espeleodijous proceeded to explore, study and catalogue a good number of the cavities in the area.
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Bibliography
- Totes les dades, topografies i fotografies han estat extretes del blog: espeleobloc.blogspot (Apunts dels dies 30 i 31-7-2015). Les coordenades han estat facilitades pel mateix equip de l'Espeleodijous.
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Source: Espeleoindex (espeleoindex.com), modified. CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/