Trou des Bons Amants
IKARE record of a cavity with impenetrable fissures at the bottom, in Valanginian limestones, dolomites and Sables.
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Trou des Bons Amants
IKARE record of a cavity with impenetrable fissures at the bottom, in Valanginian limestones, dolomites and Sables.
Montiers-sur-Saulx
Depth: 11 m
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IKARE record of a cavity with impenetrable fissures at the bottom, in Valanginian limestones, dolomites and Sables.
Description
Morphology
Impenetrable fissures at the bottom.
Other details
Geology: Spotted limestones - Tubular limestones - Lower greenish dolomite? - Vacuolar oolite of Savonnières? - Upper greenish dolomite? - Valanginian Sables
Bibliography: IGN (floating date), BRGM (floating date), CSF Saint-Dizier (1950), Louis (1970), Devaux (1978)
Coordinates rectified, despite the concordance with the BRGM map, to be in agreement with the IGN map.
For more information on the origin of this data, see the IKARE site http://ikare.loterr.univ-lorraine.fr/dev_leaflet/fiche_GRAV.php?IdSelect=55348002
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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/89285 · 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 Frédéric Urien - compte administrateur (Données IKARE) · 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/89285 · data as of 2026