Sandstone Ravine Traditional Cache
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You can find this cache in a sand-stone ravine that is near Kishajmás village in the East borderland of Zselic hilly country.
Approaching the cache:
Recommended parking place: N46° 11,985' E18° 4,893’ alt. 145 m.
You will go from the little bridge of the parking place to North along a scartroad to the first waypoint: N46° 12,114' E18° 43,837' alt. 175 m.
You will look for second waypoint: N46° 12,121' E18° 4,762' alt. 185 m.
Here you will leave the road to the left and you will look for the beginning of the valley of the ravine: N46° 12,120' E 18°4,683' alt. 175 m.
Then you will go on a hard terrain to the cache. Maybe your GPS will be dumb in the narrow ravine, therefore it is recommended to study the photo of the hideout place it is a rock with horizontal splits.
Why is this place so special one?
In times of the ending of the Miocene epoch the Pannon-sea spreaded in the whole Carpathian basin. This sea was connected to the remainders of the Tethys ocean by a narrow soun and the salty seawater gradually thinnered and got fresh water. Later the soun closed and the giant Pannon-lake came into existence. This lake was filled totally up with the sandy-clayey alluvian deposits of the rivers (about 5 million years ago). The thickness of the deposits is a whole kilometer here and there.
This filled up plain was lifted by earth’s crust movements and the surface was covered with 10…30 m loess layer. Later hills were formed from this table-land by erosion. This is the past of Zselic hilly country. People think there is no stone in 1200 sqr kilometer Zselic, and they are almost right, but you can find a little few places where sandstone layers came into existence in the Miocene deposits. This place is the one of those.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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