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Isverna Cave is situated on the eastern slope of the Mehedinți Mountains, at an altitude of 450 m. It is over 4 km long, and it functions as the water collector for a karst area of over 20 km2. It is traversed by a river with very clear water except during flood conditions. A series of sumps, of which the longest is the Black Sump (~700 m), are spread along the underground river. This makes the cave an excellent destination for cave diving activities. The first few hundred meters of galleries host hibernation and maternity bat colonies.
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We thank I. Nemeth and J. Kovacs for their contribution to the survey of the Black Sump. We also thank Sz. Bodony and the various team members that helped the exploration effort. VD was financially supported by the FREem project (IFA-CEA C4-08/2014). We thank A. Cohn and M. Piskula for providing the underwater photographs.
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Baciu, M., Mogyorosi, G., Drăgușin, V., Gyurka, Z., Storozynski, S. (2019). Mehedinti Mountains: Isverna Cave. 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_20
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