Grotte de Richard
Contact cavity between puddingstones and variegated limestone marls of the Cuisian, whose masked entrance leads to a chamber and a pit.
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Grotte de Richard
Contact cavity between puddingstones and variegated limestone marls of the Cuisian, whose masked entrance leads to a chamber and a pit.
Labastide-en-Val
Length: 25 m · Depth: 7 m
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Contact cavity between puddingstones and variegated limestone marls of the Cuisian, whose masked entrance leads to a chamber and a pit.
Description
Morphology
Contact cavity, puddingstones at the ceiling and variegated limestone marls of the Cuisian for the rest.
The spacious entrance (4 m x 3 m) is masked by a collapse of large puddingstone blocks, some of which measure 3 m x 4 m x 3 m.
A chamber of 20 m x 8 m x 6 m is in fact a section of gallery cut across by erosion.
Progression
Passing on the left side, one descends by a ramp into the chamber.
At the back, on the right side, an earthy and rocky pit descends to -7 m.
At the back on the left, the start of a 2-metre crawlway, to be enlarged.
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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/74165 · 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 Stoche (Géologie), Stoche (Description) · 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/74165 · data as of 2026