Saint Martin's Potholes

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A string of potholes (LEITER 1948: 63) in limestone are probably rather whirlpools exposed in the bed of a stream than holes in a pot. Compare the so-called small fissure (PEET 1946: 94) of –>Hunugala Lena. SITUATION: Somewhere above the tea factory of St. Martin's Group (N07°24': E080°51') in the upper Heen Ganga basin and an estimated 100 yards (91 m) in an unspecified direction to the left (sic!) but 30 feet (9.15 m) above the stream of an unspecified river valley (LEITER 1948: 63). CAVE DESCRIPTION: Of geomorphological interest are many instances of the uniclinal shifting of the river valleys of which that above the tea-factory of St.Martin's Group merits special attention. Here the shifting is up the dip-slope, though every time the new water course is lower than the previous one. To the left of this stream there is a string of potholes [unspecified dimensions] in the limestone, which now forms a low ridge of about 70' above the present stream and about 100 yards to theleft of it (LEITER 1948: 63).