GURU gSANG PHUG 5: tufa cave

Thasang (मुस्ताङ - NP)
28.676100,83.594400
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 24/07/2016

A primary cave is currently developing below a canopy of precipitating travertine (calcareous tufa) situated near the base of the calcite covered talus slope below Guru gSang Phug. This item, the lowest of the caves at Guru gSang Phug, seems to have inspired the "British Karst Expedition to the Himalaya" (edited 1971 by WALTHAM) to reckon that all caves here »were formed in tufa« (COWARD 1971c: 30).

Documents

Bibliography 24/07/2016

History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1993 March 17: H. D. Gebauer and Georg Bäumler mapped explored, and photographed. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 24/07/2016

Caves nearby

Distance (km)NameLength (m)Depth (m)
0.0GURU gSANG PHUG 3: dry cave
0.0GURU gSANG PHUG 4: dwar
0.0GURU gSANG PHUG 1
0.0GURU gSANG PHUG 2: stream cave
1.2KOKETHANTI (Cave at)
3.4GHHOUBRA GOMPA
5.0CHUKSANG CAVE
5.0GOMPA U
5.0PYUNG KYU U