CUCC Expeditions to Austria: 1976 - 2022

Survex File: caves-1623/204/subsoil/earthenware

*begin earthenware ; Locn: Totes Gebirge, Austria - Loser/Augst-Eck Plateau (kataster group 1623) ; Cave: Steinbruckenhöhle, 1623/204 *title "Earthenware" ; File name is misleading (mea culpa, sorry). This is the very end bit of Earthenware ; and the northerly branch of Underware. -- DL *date 2004.07.31 *team Insts Becka Lawson *team Notes Frank Tully *team Tape Both *instrument set 2 *ref 2004#31 ; Calibration: stone bridge: 149/+23, 326/-23 ; ====== stations refindable to link to other surveys: ====== *export 23 4 10 7 6 8 9 *calibrate tape +0.17 ; +ve if tape was too short, -ve if too long ; blue open reel tape ;from to tape comp clino 1 23 4.80 218 -25 1 2 4.93 352 +43 ; could be tape 4.83? 3 2 4.35 169 +21 3 4 6.53 353 +07 5 4 14.16 175 -24 5 6 1.98 315 +19 7 6 7.08 248 -18 7 8 9.74 328 -02 9 8 6.53 166 -04 9 10 12.41 321 +37 11 10 12.73 181 -21 11 12 4.52 304 +11 ;station details ;name L R U D description ;23 - - - - =subsoil2.23 ;1 0 0.3 4 0 RP LHW ;2 0.4 0 2 2 RP RHW upper rift oxbow of passage ;3 0.5 0.5 4 2 Vertical rift at top 45degree rift at bottom quite sandy ;4 1 2 4 1.5 Enlargement of passage. Two additional ways on. QM A 1 left floor level; QM A 2 climb up right. Survey continues straight on ;5 2 0.5 1 2.5 Survey continues up right. QM A straight on, QM A down left. ;6 0 1.5 1.5 3 Short leg near 5 to get better angle ;7 2 3 2 1.5 Left wall of long passage [I guessed that from the survey leg lengths - typist] ;8 2 4 4 1.5 Large boulder & sand floored passage, draughting strongly with [? - tails off] ;9 4 1.5 4 2 RP roof pendant. Continuing large sandy passage. ;10 0.5 4 1 1.5 RP left wall. Passage continues upwards at 45deg same size. Floor rock of large slabs covered in sand. Draught small. Passage big. ;11 2.5 1 2 2 RP right wall. Passage on large fallen boulders. Large holes in floor may lead under boulder choke. ;12 0.2 2.5 0.75 0.3 RP on right wall. Passage ends at boulder choke of gravel & small rocks. Draughts strongly through boulders. Possible dig. *end earthenware

underground survey length: 89.76 metres
cave primary survexfile caves-1623/204/204.svx
directory primary survexfile caves-1623/204/subsoil/allsubsoil
block earthenware has parent block allsubsoil (in file caves-1623/204/subsoil/allsubsoil.svx)

2004-07-31 ['earthenware']

Survex files on this date:
    caves-1623/204/subsoil/heavilysoiled
    caves-1623/204/subsoil/earthenware
    caves-1623/204/subsoil/fatworm2
    caves-1623/204/subsoil/fatworm3
    caves-1623/204/subsoil/thinrift
Wallets on this date:
    2004#31 ['notes2', 'notes1']
    2004#32 ['notes', 'plan']
    2004#33 Fat Worm Blows a Sparky, part 2 ['notes4', 'notes2', 'notes6', 'notes1', 'notes3', 'notes5', 'plan']
Logbook trips on this date:
    204 - Subsoil
    Loser Plateau - Surface stuff
    Cave - Skinny Festerers