Tham Ban Luang - CM0074
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Location
From the entrance to the Royal Project go back up the road above the hairpins, but before the Y junction, where there is a car parking space. A footpath leads down to the large cave entrance, which is in a cliff which is below the road.
Description
The entrance is 25 m wide and 10 m high and the stream passage descends steadily until after 60 m the south-west trending passage gets smaller as an oxbow goes off to the left, which allows the bypassing of a short, wet pitch. The passage is then 5 m wide, picks up a couple of unexplored tributaries and continues for 100 m to where it opens into a 30 m wide boulder floored passage. After 80 m the passage continues to descend and narrows to 10 m wide and then stays much the same width to the end. In the narrower section the stream continues to descend via a series of small drops and the passage is mainly a boulder floored inclined rift. The cave ends at a downstream sump.
Topographie
The cave was surveyed to Grade UISv2 3-3-A by the 1984 expedition. ELLIS, MARTIN (2009) - based on unpublished TKHC 1984 survey Ellis, Martin; Laumanns, Michael (2017)
Fauna
Rhinolophus malayanus Bonhote, 1903 (Chordata, Mammalia, Chiroptera, Rhinolophidae) (McFarlane and Blood 1986) Rhinolophus robinsoni thaianus Hill, 1992 (Chordata, Mammalia, Chiroptera, Rhinolophidae) û type locality (McFarlane and Blood 1986) Ia io Thomas, 1902 (Chordata, Mammalia, Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) (Blood and McFarlane 1988) Miniopterus macrodens Maeda, 1982 (Chordata, Mammalia, Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) (Blood and McFarlane 1988) Myotis altarium Thomas, 1911 (Chordata, Mammalia, Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) (Blood and McFarlane 1988)
Documents
[Topo] Tham Ban Luang 04/05/2019Bibliography 26/06/2019
- +BLOOD, BRAD R.; MCFARLANE, DONALD A. (1988) "Notes on Some Bats From Northern Thailand With Comments on the Subgeneric Status of Myotis altarium" Zeitschrift f³r Saugetierkunde No. 53 pp276-280 ***Bolger, Terry; Ellis, Martin (2018) "An overview of caves and caving in Thailand" Journal of the Australasian Cave and Karst Management Association No 110 pp32-37 +DUNKLEY, JOHN ROBERT (1995) "The Caves of Thailand" Speleological Research Council, Sydney ISBN 0-9589253-9-9 +ELLIS, MARTIN (2005) "Some Caves in Thailand Part 1" Shepton Mallet Caving Club Journal Series 11 No. 7 pp294-321 +ELLIS, MARTIN (2009) ôThailandÆs Top Twentyö Shepton Mallet Caving Club Journal Series 12 No. 4 pp140-232 +Ellis, Martin (2015c) "Thailand's Longest and Deepest Caves: A Caving Guide" Martin Ellis, Shepton Mallet ISBN 978-1-326-43857-9 84pp +Ellis, Martin; Laumanns, Michael (2017) "Thailand" in Laumanns, Michael; Price, Liz (eds.) (2017) "Atlas of the Great Caves and Karst of Southeast Asia: Part 2 Myanmar - Vietnam" second edition, Berliner Hohlenkundliche Berichte Band 67 pp241-292 +FARRANT, ANDREW; FLOWER, SIMON; LEE, SIMON (2001) "UBSS Expedition to Northern Thailand" University of Bristol Spelaeological Society Proceedings Vol. 22 No. 2 pp125-156 +MCFARLANE, DONALD A.; BLOOD, BRAD R. (1986) "Taxonomic Notes on a Collection of Rhinolophidae (Chiroptera) from Northern Thailand with a Description of a New Subspecies of Rhinolophus robinsonii" Zeitschrift f³r Saugetierkunde Vol. 51 pp218-223 +THAILAND KARST HYDROLOGIC SURVEY (1985) "Doi Chiang Dao & Doi Ang Khang" unpublished notes
Caves nearby
| Distance (km) | Name | Length (m) | Depth (m) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.9 | Tham Hub Pha Khao - CM0158 | ||
| 0.9 | Dead Robber Waterfall Cave [CM0097] | 570 | 166 |
| 1.0 | Sink CM0159 - CM0159 | ||
| 1.0 | Ang Khang Sinkhole [CM0245] | ||
| 1.6 | Black Scorpion Cave [CM0155] | ||
| 1.6 | Poppy Sink Cave - CM0099 | 107 | 93 |
| 1.7 | Cricket Cave [CM0150] | 347 | 106 |
| 1.9 | Roadside Well Cave - CM0154 | ||
| 2.6 | Sink CM0147 - CM0147 |