PAMSKEI (Krem)

(Mawsynram - IN)
25.250000,91.583300
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An unspecified cave entrance (unidentified shape, unidentified dimensions, unidentified orientation) between some large rounded sandstone blocks (Anonymous [Arbenz T, Brooks S J et al.] 2015.04.03 Mss: Diary 2015.docx) gives access to a stream cave where coal in the ceiling indicates that the cave is formed in Lakadong Limestone. ETYMOLOGY: Zorba Z. Laloo from Mawlongbna had forwarded on 30th January 2015 the cave name Krem Pamskei (Anonymous 2015.04.03 Mss: Diary 2015.docx 30th January 2015 Friday) and interpreted as Kill Deer Cave (Anonymous 2015.04.03 Mss: Diary 2015.docx 31st January 2015 Saturday). SITUATION: About a mile roughly west of the resort at the head of riverbed. The riverbed was mostly dry (January) and has numerous water-filled swirlholes (Anonymous [Arbenz T, Brooks S J et al.] 2015.04.03 Mss: Diary 2015.docx). CAVE DESCRIPTION 2015.04.03: The entrance between some large rounded sandstone blocks gives access to a stream passage, 4 m wide x 1.5 m high, with a shallow tream running towards the exit (Anonymous 2015.04.03 Mss: Diary 2015.docx 30th January 2015 Friday). … the downstream part … turned out to be two sinks in succession. The first one takes-in the stream through well eroded rifts and joints too small to be followed. The second one, after a 20 m sandy crawl, is muddy and funnel-shaped and is partly fed from a tight inlet which wasn’t followed, and the overflow from the first sink in high-water conditions.Upstream leads along the stream way (stooping to walking height, generally 2 m to 4 m wide) until a first boulder choke. The cave, initially set in limestone, follows a coal seam which forms the roof of the passage. Shortly before the boulder choke it rises into sandstone. The choke can easily be by-passed via a lateral crawl on the right side, after about 15 m the stream is reached again. Now the left hand side of the cave is all boulders and breakdown, several ‘could-be’ passages taking off into it. The main gallery is again stream passge which arrives at a second boulder choke. The stream flows out of a low gap under a massive boulder. Up to the left and following the main trend of the cave the choke is by-passed by crawling along the remains of a nice phreatic tube up to a big slab that dips again down to the stream passage. From here the team followed the stream to a Boulder Choke and Y-junction, 450 m into the cave, where they stopped and left the survey of the on-going passages for the future (Anonymous 2015.04.03 Mss: Diary 2015.docx 31st January 2015 Saturday).tream running towards the exit (Anonymous 2015.04.03 Mss: Diary 2015.docx 30th January 2015 Friday). … the downstream part … turned out to be two sinks in succession. The first one takes-in the stream through well eroded rifts and joints too small to be followed. The second one, after a 20 m sandy crawl, is muddy and funnel-shaped and is partly fed from a tight inlet which wasn’t followed, and the overflow from the first sink in high-water conditions.Upstream leads along the stream way (stooping to walking height, generally 2 m to 4 m wide) until a first boulder choke. The cave, initially set in limestone, follows a coal seam which forms the roof of the passage. Shortly before the boulder choke it rises into sandstone. The choke can easily be by-passed via a lateral crawl on the right side, after about 15 m the stream is reached again. Now the left hand side of the cave is all boulders and breakdown, several ‘could-be’ passages taking off into it. The main gallery is again stream passge which arrives at a second boulder choke. The stream flows out of a low gap under a massive boulder. Up to the left and following the main trend of the cave the choke is by-passed by crawling along the remains of a nice phreatic tube up to a big slab that dips again down to the stream passage. From here the team followed the stream to a Boulder Choke and Y-junction, 450 m into the cave, where they stopped and left the survey of the on-going passages for the future (Anonymous 2015.04.03 Mss: Diary 2015.docx 31st January 2015 Saturday).

Documents

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Histoire

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 2015.01.30, trip 1: Zorba Z. Laloo from Mawlongbna guided Thomas 'Nothing-Compares-To-Us' Arbenz (note 1), Simon J. Brooks and Barry James Lawton into the cave (note 2). 2015.01.30, trip 2: Thomas Arbenz (PDA), Barry James Lawton (Distox) and Zorba Z. Laloo commenced to achieve performing a process of surveying (note 3). Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Cavités proche

Distance (km)NomLongueur (m)Profondeur (m)
0.9JYNNIAW CAVE 3c »Pothole«
1.5JYNNIAW CAVE 2a
1.5JYNNIAW CAVE 1st
1.5JYNNIAW CAVE 3a
1.5JYNNIAW CAVE 3b
1.5JYNNIAW CAVE 3d »Squeeze«
1.5JYNNIAW CAVE 2b
1.9PHUD JASIM, 1st (Krem)
1.9PHUD JASIM, 2nd (Krem)