UMKIT (Krem poh)
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Description
Boulders in small cleft. 1 m drop to flat out gravel floor (Brown 2001.02.08 Mss). ETYMOLOGY: The Khasi verb -kit- means to carry on the back with a head strap; to bear; to be responsible for but the bird -ka kit-bru- is an owl (SINGH, N 1906: 41). SITUATION: According to Brown (2001.02.08 Mss), this item lies not only at an unexplainable location but also in an inexplicable spatial relation to the other caves in the vicinity. CAVE CONTENTS: Brown (2001.02.08 Mss) observed not only a gravel floor and calcite walls (flowstone speleothems) but also found an animal bone (perhaps the shoulder blade of a goat). CAVE CLIMATE: At an unspecified hour of the day, Mark W. Brown (2001.02.08 Mss) and Tom Chapman noticed on 8th February 2008 an unspecified air current and recorded a certain good draught without identified flow direction.
Documents
Bibliography 06/01/2018Cavités proche
Distance (km) | Nom | Longueur (m) | Profondeur (m) |
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0.1 | KHUNG, Shnongrim (Krem) | ||
0.1 | Mura 1 (Krem) | ||
0.2 | Mura 2 (Krem) | ||
0.2 | MUID (Krem) | ||
0.2 | Mura 3 (Krem) | ||
0.2 | Mura 3b (Krem) | ||
0.2 | Mura 4 | ||
0.3 | WAH SIER, Tongseng (Krem) | ||
0.4 | UMSHYNGIAR 4 (Krem) |