KUI 1, insurgence (Krem U)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Altogether three cave entrances (note 1) give access to an about 250 m long and 40 m deep stream cave, which lies about 500 or 600 m east along the road from the Litang bridge (note 2) and passes without side passages (except the daylight window of Krem Khuiang 2 shaft) beneath an unidentified spot (without GPS position) on the road to the village of Nongkhlieh. The cave seems to drain a catchment area (probably in Miocene Kopili Limestones merging with underlying Eocene Umlatodoh Limestones) from the south-east to the orographically right bank of the river Litang (Leteiñ, Litien) valley and river. According to the cave contains much calcite (speleothems) in addition to some eroded, and fine dried mud -dinner plates- in the sump (Boycott 2006.02.14 Mss: Krem Khuiang). ETYMOLOGY: The cave initially recorded as Krem Khuiang (note 3) or Litang Bridge Cave (Boycott 2006.02.14 Mss) was interpreted as if it were locally known as Krem U Kui (note 4) or Cave of the Lynx (Arbenz, T 2008.03.12 ss -Vocabulary- after Smt Reliance [Jingshaniah] Phyrngap of the staff of three unidentified teachers (no names known) from the Green Hills Upper Primary School at Shnongrim along with Adison Thabah, Shillong). SITUATION: Near the only tea shop for miles (JARRATT 2006: 9), the relatively small insurgence entrance is partly blocked with stalagmited boulders and lies in a shallow valley with paddy fields (Boycott 2006.02.14 Mss: Krem Khuiang) south-east above the road to Nongkhlieh and at the western base of the Nongkhlieh Ridge. CAVE DESCRIPTION: See: Krem –>Khuiang 3. CAVE POTENTIAL: Finished (Arbenz, T 2006.05.21 Mss: Abstracts.xls) CAVE LIFE: Noticed on 14th February 2006 was the presence of one bat, Heteropoda, snot gobblers, crayfish and dead crabs (Boycott 2006.02.14 Mss: Krem Khuiang) or Chiroptera sp.; Arachnidae: Aranea: Sparassidae: conf. Heteropoda sp.; Crustacea; the larval stage of fungus gnats (Diptera: Mycetophilidae).Altogether three cave entrances (note 1) give access to an about 250 m long and 40 m deep stream cave, which lies about 500 or 600 m east along the road from the Litang bridge (note 2) and passes without side passages (except the daylight window of Krem Khuiang 2 shaft) beneath an unidentified spot (without GPS position) on the road to the village of Nongkhlieh. The cave seems to drain a catchment area (probably in Miocene Kopili Limestones merging with underlying Eocene Umlatodoh Limestones) from the south-east to the orographically right bank of the river Litang (Leteiñ, Litien) valley and river. According to the cave contains much calcite (speleothems) in addition to some eroded, and fine dried mud -dinner plates- in the sump (Boycott 2006.02.14 Mss: Krem Khuiang). ETYMOLOGY: The cave initially recorded as Krem Khuiang (note 3) or Litang Bridge Cave (Boycott 2006.02.14 Mss) was interpreted as if it were locally known as Krem U Kui (note 4) or Cave of the Lynx (Arbenz, T 2008.03.12 ss -Vocabulary- after Smt Reliance [Jingshaniah] Phyrngap of the staff of three unidentified teachers (no names known) from the Green Hills Upper Primary School at Shnongrim along with Adison Thabah, Shillong). SITUATION: Near the only tea shop for miles (JARRATT 2006: 9), the relatively small insurgence entrance is partly blocked with stalagmited boulders and lies in a shallow valley with paddy fields (Boycott 2006.02.14 Mss: Krem Khuiang) south-east above the road to Nongkhlieh and at the western base of the Nongkhlieh Ridge. CAVE DESCRIPTION: See: Krem –>Khuiang 3. CAVE POTENTIAL: Finished (Arbenz, T 2006.05.21 Mss: Abstracts.xls) CAVE LIFE: Noticed on 14th February 2006 was the presence of one bat, Heteropoda, snot gobblers, crayfish and dead crabs (Boycott 2006.02.14 Mss: Krem Khuiang) or Chiroptera sp.; Arachnidae: Aranea: Sparassidae: conf. Heteropoda sp.; Crustacea; the larval stage of fungus gnats (Diptera: Mycetophilidae).