LP19
LP19 is a fault-shaft cave whose 1981 exploration stopped at a clogged step.
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LP19
LP19 is a fault-shaft cave whose 1981 exploration stopped at a clogged step.
Samoëns
Length: 183 m · Depth: 121 m
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LP19 is a fault-shaft cave whose 1981 exploration stopped at a clogged step.
Description
Morphology
LP19 is a succession of shafts on a fault. The first vertical drop of 25 metres is followed by a magnificent shaft of about thirty metres. A clogged step marks the limit of the 1981 explorations. The draught comes from a fault at the top of this step. It leads to a P8 and then to two parallel shafts 8 metres high.
A meander punctuated by narrowings leads to a new small vertical drop that ends in a small chamber. A window defends the access to a magnificent shaft of about thirty metres. Unfortunately the bottom is rapidly clogged by the marly layer that stops us in most of the caves of the area. In the chamber, an upward branch allows one to reach a descending meander that becomes impassable 25 metres lower down, blocked by the same marly layer as before.
Hydrology
The water infiltrates into an impassable fault.
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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/766 · 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 générale) · 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/766 · data as of 2026