Description of the Gombasecka Cave


The Gombasecka Cave is a spring cave of the large underground hydrologic system of the stream Cierny potok (Black Brook). The system is originated in the western part of the Silicka planina Plateau. First branch of the system begins in the ponor Fararova jama at the village Silica. Second branch begins in the Cervena Cave (Red Cave), what represents a dry ponor cave, near the village Silicka Brezova. Only the Silicka ladnica Ice Cave is known from first branch of the cave system in upper part.

The Gombasecka Cave is evolved in light wetterstein limestones (Middle Triassic). Its passages were originated alongside the tectonic breakdowns with mainly oval-shape profiles. They have been created by erosion activity of the Cierny potok stream and it's lateral inflows. To the cave passages increase of main domes and halls have contributed in the great scale the rock boulder breaking off and falling down from the ceiling and walls. Today the Gombasecka Cave represents a cave of the autochthonous river type what is created in a karst plateau with high altitude difference between water ponors on the plateau and erosion basis at a foot of the plateau. It is geologically young cave therefore is impossible to see the accumulation stages change with the erosion ones.

The superlong spaghetti stalactites (79kB).

The important places, which can be found in the cave are the Sucha chodba (Dry Passage). This is remarkable by the clear white dripstones. The Sucha chodba Passage is passing through into the Mramorova sien (Marble Hall) with 30 x 20 x 4 m dimensions. There is a heap of the stalagmites in the chamber. A roof of the Mramorova sien Hall is decorated by a glass splendid forest of the thin white stalactites passed to the red color. The next noteworthy chamber is the Sien mieru (Hall of Peace) in which thin sinter straws and spaghetti of the white and pink colors overcrowd a ceiling of the hall. Their diameter is 0.5 cm and length up to 3 m. They are looking an impression of stoned rain on the brown red structure of limestone's walls.

The white and the red of the dripstones (82kB).

A cleft corridor connects the Sien mieru Hall with the Sien Mudrosti (Hall of Wisdom) with 10 x 15 x 9 m dimensions, which was appeared by the fall down. A dripstone decoration of the hall is mainly created by pagoda-shaped stalagmites (still 2 m height) from which the 60 cm high stalagmite of owl form is attractive for considering as a wisdom sign. From the Wisdom Hall the cave continues by the Hlinena chodba (Clay Passage), evolved on the fissure by the large of 1-2 m and 5-8 m height. Next dome - the Brkovy dom (Quill Dome) - is covered by the yellow brown clay sediments of the 8 m thickness. From this dome it is possible to go down to the Cierny potok stream, what is inflow to here from SE, from the Silicka ladnica Ice Cave area. The cave total length is 1525 m.


SLOVAKIA CAVE SERVER prepared by Eduard Kladiva (Old Cave Dog) from Speleoclub CASSOVIA . Please send all comments, notes and corrections on e-mail kladiva@saske.sk.