URLE 3 (Krem)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A complex of bogaz (grykes, Karstgassen) in the open air with some roofed rift cave and bedding plane passages containing some speleothems and one fossilized bone in a wall. SITUATION (Brooks 2005 Mss: Meghalaya Diary: Tuesday 8th February): A few hundred metres below the west side of the road between Khaidong and Shnongrim. CAVE DESCRIPTION 2005.1: Krem Urle three was an area of open grykes and cave passages, surveyed for 120 m of low bedding and rifts (Brooks 2005 Mss: Meghalaya Diary 2005.02.08). CAVE DESCRIPTION 2005.2: A wide area of open grykes enterable at the northern end (25°21'09.0”: 92°30'30.3”). … surveyed for 120 m including the unroofed passages or grykes. A few formations, lots of spiders, and a fossilized bone in the wall did not improve the generally low nature of this bedding plane and rift cave (Jarratt 2005.03.06 Mss: Cave Log, vol. XII, 8/2/05). CAVE DESCRIPTION 2005.3: 8.02.05 Shnongrim ARJ, AB & JS 128.74 / 8 (Brooks 2005.10.05: Meghalaya 2005 Survey Summary. PROSPECTS: Tony … pushed a sandy, awkward squeeze to a too narrow inlet but did not push a narrow, spider-infested outlet below a 2 m pot. It may have to be looked at again one day! (Jarratt 2005.03.06 Mss: Cave Log, vol. XII, 8/2/05).