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Recently explored the Southern Buttes demonstrate a hitherto unsuspected speleological potential. They are a dismantled prolongation of the Southern Ankarana. Crossed as they are by the Mahavavy and the Mananjeba rivers the cave density is massive; voids probably exceed 30% of the volume of the rock.
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Gilli, E. (2019). Caves of the Southern Buttes. In: The Ankarana Plateau in Madagascar. Cave and Karst Systems of the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99879-4_8
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