Salt Caves in Catalonia
Caves in salt are the catalog’s rarity: salt is so soluble that passages can open and close again in cycles tied to rainfall, and those that survive long enough to be cataloged tend to be linked to salt diapirs like the one in Cardona. If saline karst in Catalonia interests you, here you’ll find a highly localized geological phenomenon, quite different from the usual karst in limestone.
The catalogue includes 3 cavitats with Salt lithology, concentrated in Cardona. Cova dels Meandres de Sal, amb 4300 m de recorregut.
The surveyed length of the caves with this data ranges from 260 to 4300 metres. The depth ranges from 5 to 187 metres. You can check the full entry for location, access and, where available, photographs and survey maps. The whole set of caves on this page can also be downloaded as CSV or JSON.
La litologia Sals és una roca evaporítica extremadament soluble, que dona lloc a un carst salí molt actiu però efímer, poc habitual fora de zones diapíriques.
