Grotte du Surplomb
Small cavity with a 2 m by 1.8 m porch, a 45 m northeast gallery narrowing to an impassable passage 60 m from the entrance.
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Grotte du Surplomb
Small cavity with a 2 m by 1.8 m porch, a 45 m northeast gallery narrowing to an impassable passage 60 m from the entrance.
Minerve
Sviluppo: 60 m
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Small cavity with a 2 m by 1.8 m porch, a 45 m northeast gallery narrowing to an impassable passage 60 m from the entrance.
Descrizione
Morfologia
The entrance porch is 2 metres high by 1.8 metres wide. A gallery on a slight upward slope, its floor covered with fine brown earth, follows and grows narrower; one rarely stands upright in it. The general direction is northeast for 45 metres; there, a small diaclase nord (north–south joint) causes a small widening and a few blocks on the floor as well as a southward offset, then the gallery resumes toward the southeast but narrower (meander style) with a muddier floor. At 60 metres from the entrance, an impassable narrowing marks the end of this small cavity at the altitude of the entrance.
Concrezioni
Traces of gours in the southeastern part of the gallery.
Altri dettagli
The view is very beautiful and the unusual position of this cavity is its one and only interest. a cavity of little interest despite everything, but one that had long awaited its explorers.
Limestones with Alveolines of the Ypresian (Eocene). Cavity excavated in interstratal position. The contact with the Primary is at the foot of the cliff.
Storia
Personally, my first attempts to reach it date from 1975, at my beginnings in caving, but access from above was not easy given the receding angle under the overhang and must have stopped many attempts; other unsuccessful attempts took place and this gaping porch still taunted me whenever I passed by; so it was necessary to dare to attack from below, which was done and easily succeeded.
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