Geology of France

France is the birthplace of modern speleology. The most famous names are Martel, de Joly and Casteret. They were not only founders of French speleology, but of speleology itself.

The caves are located south of the line Basel-Bordeaux. The main karst areas are Jura, Provence, Pyrénées, Massif central, Périgord, and Alpes du Sud. The caves are often large, impressive and show beautiful formations.

France has an enormous amount of show caves, depending on how you define show caves, you will count about 150. Unfortunately, most of them are still missing on our pages. The main reason is the language. At the moment is no French-English bilingual working at our team, so we have little chance to use the resources of the internet. And unfortunately the French normally have no English pages.

France is definitely the European cave country! Even Slovenija has problems to compete, it has enormous caves too, but it is a very small country!

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