SAIKHLAT POUK

(Saipung - IN)
25.200800,92.453600
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An unspecified vertical cave entrance (unidentified shape, unidentified dimensions, unidentified characteristics) in a riverbed breaches Yppresian (Lower Eocene, Middle Sylhet stage) Umlatdoh Sandstone, takes a seasonal waterfall and gives to access to the uppermost reaches of –>Pielkhlieng Pouk. ETYMOLOGY: The Hmar (Mizo) cave name -Saithlak Pouk- (note 1) was recorded as -Saikhlat Pouk- and said to translate rather as Falling Elephant Cave (note 2) than Fallen Elephant Cave (note 3). SITUATION: The hydrographically topmost cave entrance (insurgence) of –>Pielkhlieng Pouk lies, as far as known, about 200 m in a direct line approximately NNE (north north east) of –>Sielkan Pouk but about 10 m lower down. POSITION: 25'12'03”N: 92'27'13”E: 450 m (Bäumler, G 2005.02.08 Mss: Survey Book) APPROACH: To descend into the doline, head for the waypoint N25'11'55' E92'27'12 (Bäumler, G 2005.02.08 Mss: survey book) which, however, happens to lie at a linear distance of 250 m souh of the doline and indicates rather a point near –>Sielkan Pouk or the village of Sielkan. CAVE DESCRIPTION 2005a: The Saikhlat Dung or Falling Elephant River falls into an estimated 20 m deep doline (Bäumler, G 2005.02.08 Mss: Survey Book). CAVE DESCRIPTION 2005b: An impressive sandstone riverbed drops into a large pothole about 25 m deep (note 4).h of the doline and indicates rather a point near –>Sielkan Pouk or the village of Sielkan. CAVE DESCRIPTION 2005a: The Saikhlat Dung or Falling Elephant River falls into an estimated 20 m deep doline (Bäumler, G 2005.02.08 Mss: Survey Book). CAVE DESCRIPTION 2005b: An impressive sandstone riverbed drops into a large pothole about 25 m deep (note 4).

Documents

Bibliography 06/01/2018

Histoire

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 2005.02.14: Ramhuoplien 'Huoplien' Tuolor (then the Sielkan village headman) guided Lindsay B. Diengdoh, Gregory D. Diengdoh, Georg Bäumler, Rainer Hoss, Christine Jantschke and Herbert Jantschke to the top of a waterfall recorded as Saikhlat (Jantschke, H 2005.02.11 Mss: Fahrtenbericht Meghalaya 2005; JANTSCHKE, H 2006: 148). Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Cavités proche

Distance (km)NomLongueur (m)Profondeur (m)
0.4SHER POUK
0.4VELA LO POUK
0.4WAH DOHTHLI, Sakwa, 1st (Krem)
0.4WAH DOHTHLI, Sakwa, 2nd (Krem)
0.4SIELKAN POUK
0.4SAKWA (Cave near)
0.4KHUR MONGBO
0.7SIELKAN HMAR POUK
1.0BUK POUK, Sielkan