A cave near the village Skupaya Potudan in the Voronezh region

Authors

  • Дмитрий Васильевич Альбов Moscow State University image/svg+xml
  • Виталий Викторович Степкин Pavlovsk Secondary School of the Voronezh region

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17308/geo.2019.3/2331

Keywords:

cave, karst, Skupaya Potudan village, Voronezh region

Abstract

The article first considers a cave near the village Skupaya Potudan in Nizhnedevitsky district of Voronezh region. The total length of the cave is 22.5 m, the enclosing rock is chalk. The height and width of the main passage is on average 0.5 m. Traces of tools are visible on the cave walls. This object has a unique character without any direct analogues in the same region. Probably the cavity initially was formed as a system of hillside cracks, then it was subjected to erosion and zoogenic processes (plenty of feces), and at last an unknown person enlarged the passages trying to reach a large cavity. The presence of other cavities is indicated by depressions located in the vicinity of the cave.

Author Biographies

  • Дмитрий Васильевич Альбов, Moscow State University

    Candidate of Chemical Sciences, Senior Researcher of the Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Moscow

  • Виталий Викторович Степкин, Pavlovsk Secondary School of the Voronezh region

    Teacher of History and Natural Sciences of the Pavlovsk Secondary School of the Voronezh region

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Published

2019-07-17

Issue

No. 3 (2019): July - September

Section

Studies of Voronezh Local Lore

How to Cite

A cave near the village Skupaya Potudan in the Voronezh region. (2019). Proceedings of Voronezh State University. Series: Geography. Geoecology, 3, 92-94. https://doi.org/10.17308/geo.2019.3/2331