HATHKAMBA 2 (Cave at)

(Ratnagiri - IN)
17.014800,73.412200
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A cone-shaped, south-east facing cave entrance (almost 2 m high and 1.2 m wide at the base but on average about 0.8 m wide) leads to a 4.25 m long cave passage in laterite, again cone-shaped in ground plan, which arrives controlled by a geological (tectonical?) disturbance (approximately 030°/±90°) from a roundish end in the west-northwest (300°). The cave's floor, slightly descending towards the cave entrance, is covered with soil deriving from the caverniferous laterite.

Documents

Bibliography 06/01/2018

History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 2007.01.27: Unidentified local guides (no names mentioned) took Thomas Matthalm (2007.01.28 personal communication), after having visited a first Hathkama No. 1 (i.e. –>Hathkamba Cave 3) to the entrance of a second cave, which was duly mapped and explored. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

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