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Puits naturel de Leers n°2

Shallow karst collapse 9 m in diameter that occurred in January 1999 in Tournaisian limestone, at the edge of a path running alongside a canalized stream.

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Puits naturel de Leers n°2

Shallow karst collapse 9 m in diameter that occurred in January 1999 in Tournaisian limestone, at the edge of a path running alongside a canalized stream.

Leers

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Shallow karst collapse 9 m in diameter that occurred in January 1999 in Tournaisian limestone, at the edge of a path running alongside a canalized stream.

Characteristics

  • Type: Pothole
  • Municipality: Leers
  • Record updated:

Location

The collapse is located at the edge of the path that runs alongside the canalized stream.

Map

Entrances

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  1. Puits naturel de Leers n°2

    50.678583, 3.258158
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Description

Morphology

Shallow collapse 9 m in diameter.

Hydrology

The collapse occurred at the edge of the path that runs alongside the canalized stream.

Other details

Geology: Tournaisian limestone.

Pollution: n

Descriptive sheet: https://cartodoc.wallonie.be/fiches/?ctx=karst&srv=id&value=371-023z

History

Collapse that occurred in January 1999.

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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/161528 · 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/161528 · data as of 2026