GABBILALA GAVI

(Pullalacheruvu - IN)
16.212500,79.350000
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 28/03/2016

A dubious sort of a »gavi« (cave), which possibly may turn out to be an abandoned mine (note 1) in the Pb-Zn ore zone of the Nallamalla range, indicated DUTT (1981 plate 6, map: Localities of mineral occurrences in Cuddapah basin) as »Gabbilala Gavi« at a location about 2 km or 5 km south-west from –>Itamma Kuva and some 10 km or 20 km in a direct line approximately south-east from Srigiripadu (N16°19': E079°20') indicated as Sirigiripadu in the India Road Atlas (Eicher Goodearth 2006: 102 B4). GEOLOGY: According to DUTT (1981: 122-123), the country rock is highly soluble coarse grained calcareous quartzite or quartzite-breccia. KURIEN (1980: 175-176) assignes the coarse grained calcareous quartzitic and argillitic host rock of copper mineralisation at the north-eastern part of the Cuddapah Basin to the Cumbum stage of the Nallamali formation of the Upper Precambrian Cuddapah Supergroup. CAVE LIFE: »In temperate areas, caves and mines provide ideal conditions for hibernation and, in their warmest parts, for nursing. Other smaller underground structures, such as rock crevices or ledges, may also be of importance in some areas. The world’s largest aggregations of bats are found in caves in both temperate and tropical regions, where millions of animals may be found in a single site. Abandoned mines may also house hundreds of thousands of bats« (HUTSON, MICKLEBURGH & RACEY 2001: 4).

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 28/03/2016

NOTE 1: Compare: –>Itamma Kuvva, –>Jinkalagondi Gavi, –>Kanchu Gavi, –>Sakkalivani Kuvva.

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3.8ITAMMA KUVVA
4.0JINKALAGONDI GAVI
7.4SAKALIVANI KUVVA
9.0KANCHU GAVI
50.7GURZALA (Foote 1916)
54.9BELLAM GAVI, Guthikonda
54.9DAIDA TEMPLE CAVE
76.4VADDAMU CAVERN
116.0VENKATESHWARA CAVE, Amravati: Vaikuntapuram