MANDOTA KARST SPRING

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 18/04/2016

A karst spring yielding 300 lps report ADYALKAR & RADHAKRISHNA (1972: 136) from Mandota, a village in the –>Markandi River valley. Compare the karst spring at –>Chepka. The spring emerges out of Kanger Limestone (Indravati Series, Purana Group) in a low topographic area and rises from about half a dozen orifices in a bowl-shaped depression, up to 75 m in diameter and 3 to 5 m in depth. SITUATION: Mandota (with Fort) is marked near N19°15': E081°50' on AMS sheet NE44-03 Jagdalpur (U502 series, 1963 edition) on the right (north) bank of the Markandi and about 12 km in a direct line west-southwest of Bastar (N19°13': E081°57'). ADYALKAR & RADHAKRISHNA (1972: 136) place the valley of the Markandi River at travelling distances of 25 km from Jagdalpur (N19°04': E082°02') and about 10 km »beyond« (north-west of) Bastar (N19°12': E081°56') on the road (National Highway NH43) to Raipur (N21°14': E081°38').