Trou de la Palette Bleue
Descending cavity to -6 m, with chambers, fissures and a long 30 m crawlway.
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Trou de la Palette Bleue
Descending cavity to -6 m, with chambers, fissures and a long 30 m crawlway.
Caunes-Minervois
Length: 250 m · Depth: 30 m
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Descending cavity to -6 m, with chambers, fissures and a long 30 m crawlway.
Description
Morphology
Descending passage to -6 m. On the right, arrival in a small chamber with 3 continuations. Opposite, a short side passage of a few metres returning towards the surface. Further right, access to a vertical fissure reaching -13 m at a very narrow fissure. On the right, a small passage reaching -11 m at a boulder choke where work is in progress. Returning to -6 m, the other part of the cavity develops. A long 30 m crawlway ends at two parallel passages that are not obvious to continue (weak air). 10 m before, on the right, a constriction precedes the only “chamber” of the cavity. Above, one reaches another well-ventilated fissure, entirely enlarged, which stops 15 m further on at a final centimetre-wide fissure.
Speleothems
The only “chamber” of the cavity contains a few pretty concretions.
Other details
Geology: Lochkovian limestones and lower Emsian calcschists.
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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/34160 · 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 BTH (Géologie), Cds 11 (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/34160 · data as of 2026