1983
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Baudouin Lismonde, « Le réseau de la Diau », Karstologia, ID : 10.3406/karst.1983.2034
Diau system. Diau cave is the resurgence of an important underground drainage system in the massif des Bornes in Haute-Savoie (France). The system's basin is approximately 9km2 between an altitude of 1200m and 1800m. The average flow is about 4001/s. Speleological explorations have discovered two sections of the master drainage cave (Diau cave and Pertuis cave). Two tributaries have also been explored. The total development of the Diau cave system is 14,9km with a height difference of 702m. The master cave occurs in the bottom of the Pertuis syncline at the boundary between the urgonian limestone and hauterivian marl. Following the gradient and the fractures, one finds four types of gallery structure of which two are vadose. The two known tributaries (inlet of the Grenoblois and Tanne des Météores) follow a NW — SE anticlockwise shear fault which exists in the Parmelan plateau fracture zone.