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Stanul Foncii is the deepest shaft (−339 m) in the Pădurea Craiului karst with a total of 4106 m of passages. It is a typical vertical cave formed by vadose water flowing downward along large fractures or at intersecting fissures. The presence of smooth and sometimes rilled wall morphologies in all eight shafts is indicative of dissolution by calcite-undersaturated groundwater descending into the cave. Speleothems were encountered only in the Parallel System, where bones of Ursus spelaeus are also present.
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Papiu, F. (2019). Pădurea Craiului Mountains: Stanul Foncii Shaft (Avenul din Stanul Foncii). In: Ponta, G., Onac, B. (eds) Cave and Karst Systems of Romania. Cave and Karst Systems of the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90747-5_44
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