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Grotte des Trois Fontaines

Small horizontal cave at the foot of the Trois Fontaines blue-stone quarries, in Givetian limestone.

Chooz

Small horizontal cave at the foot of the Trois Fontaines blue-stone quarries, in Givetian limestone.

Characteristics

  • Type: Cave
  • Municipality: Chooz
  • Record updated:

Location

Small horizontal cave at the foot of the Trois Fontaines blue-stone quarries.

Map

Entrances

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  1. Grotte des Trois Fontaines

    50.127153, 4.794030
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Description

Morphology

Small horizontal cave. Cavities are regularly exposed as the quarry advances.

Hydrology

a water intake was installed directly against the cavity to supply water to the caserne rouge. It is now abandoned.

Other details

Geology: Givetian limestone.

Pollution: n.

Descriptive sheet: https://cartodoc.wallonie.be/fiches/?ctx=karst&srv=id&value=583-009z

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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/162373 · 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 Géoportail de la Wallonie (Informations issues du Géoportail de la Wallonie) · 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/162373 · data as of 2026