
Pou de Gel
Small cave with a 19 m passage in Boumort (Conca de Dalt), known since time immemorial and with ice that persists well into the summer.
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Pou de Gel
Small cave with a 19 m passage in Boumort (Conca de Dalt), known since time immemorial and with ice that persists well into the summer.
Conca de Dalt · Pallars Jussà
Length: 19 m · Depth: 4 m
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Small cave with a 19 m passage in Boumort (Conca de Dalt), known since time immemorial and with ice that persists well into the summer.
Topographic
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Description
Morphology
The cavity is accessed between the rocks of a collapse that gives access to an icy ramp during much of the year, which reaches a widening where the cold is noticeable. It is a highly fractured clastic phenomenon through which the air current that causes the low temperatures circulates.
Hydrology
The floor has a significant thickness of ice during almost the entire year.
Other details
The main characteristic of this cavity is that, due to its special location conditions, it allows the ice to be preserved well into the summer. It seems that this use as an ice pit lasted until shortly before the war of 1936.
History
Cavity known since time immemorial; it is already cited in writings of the 18th century by Francisco de Zamora, it is also cited by Pascual Madoz in 1845 and by Puig y Larraz in 1896. Consequently it continues to appear in all later catalogues. It is not until the year 2008 that the topography of the cavity is published for the first time, carried out jointly by the GE Badalona and the EC Gràcia in an exploration carried out on 30 July 2005.
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Bibliography
- Borràs, J; Miñarro, J.M.; Talavera, F.(1979).-Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (Vol.3). ed. Políglota. Barcelona.
- Cortès Ribelles, Manuel.(2005).-La serra del Boumort i muntanyes veïnes. pp:1-380.
- Madoz, Pascual (1845).-Diccionario Geográfico-Estadístico-Histórico de España y sus posesiones en ultramar (TomoII):407. Madrid.
- Porcel i Caro. Enric (2008).-”Lo Pou de Gel i lo forat de les Mosques de la serra de Boumort”. Cavernes (27):52-57. GE Badalona.
- Puig y Larraz, Gabriel. (1896).-Cavernas y simas de España. pp:185.Madrid.
- Senent, J.;Victoria, JM.(1966).-”Datos para el conocimiento espeleológico del macizo del Boumort”. Montaña (100):269-281. CE Catalunya.
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