GOLDANGGAD

(Ranikor - IN)
25.235900,91.038700
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Several streams join the Goldang Gad and sink into a spacious river cave (note 1) that drains a catchment area in sandstone (note 2) south-west of Chibak. SITUATION: The sink lies about 20 minutes by foot from the south-eastern end of Chibak (also Nongsibak / Shibak N25°14'06-: E091°02'43- WGS84). CAVE DESCRIPTION: The united streams drop down 3 m into a dark passage (on average 9 m wide and 4 to 8 m high) with plenty of calcite formations (speleothems), including a bridge, where the stream (about 3 ltr/sec) rushes across a laquered sandstone floor to disappear some 100 m from the cave entrance under a collapse of large boulders, which rise from shallow sandy pools to heights where interstices are infilled with soil. CAVE LIFE: Many snot gobblers (larval stage of fungus gnats, Diptera: Mycetophilidae).Several streams join the Goldang Gad and sink into a spacious river cave (note 1) that drains a catchment area in sandstone (note 2) south-west of Chibak. SITUATION: The sink lies about 20 minutes by foot from the south-eastern end of Chibak (also Nongsibak / Shibak N25°14'06-: E091°02'43- WGS84). CAVE DESCRIPTION: The united streams drop down 3 m into a dark passage (on average 9 m wide and 4 to 8 m high) with plenty of calcite formations (speleothems), including a bridge, where the stream (about 3 ltr/sec) rushes across a laquered sandstone floor to disappear some 100 m from the cave entrance under a collapse of large boulders, which rise from shallow sandy pools to heights where interstices are infilled with soil. CAVE LIFE: Many snot gobblers (larval stage of fungus gnats, Diptera: Mycetophilidae).

Documents

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History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 2003.02.16: Rimsing Sangma (village headman of Khunjoy A), Jiri A. Sangma (village headman of Khunjoy B), and Rakesh Sangma (woodchuck) guided Neil Sootinck to the entrance. 2003.02.17: H. D. Gebauer, Neil Sootinck and Boycott, Antony 'Tony', guided by Rakesh Sangma, explored and mapped 243 m. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Caves nearby

Distance (km)NameLength (m)Depth (m)
0.8MEOO RONGKOL
1.0KUTABRAM SINK
1.3RONGBALJONG RONGKOL
1.5DANIANG KOL
1.5GAIMAN CHIRING
1.5WANOK CHIRING
1.6WAIKUTARAN DEPRESSION
2.4RONGDANGNIANG (Krem)
2.7DEWBAN CHIRING