SORKH AB 1 (Cave at)

دمحمدآغی ولسوالی (محمد آغې ولسوالۍ - AF)
34.133900,69.206100
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Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Small pits descent into an 8 or 9 m long tube (note 1) with little humidity which is situated in a conglomerate cliff near a water reservoir in the vicinity of Sorkh Ab (note 2) above the left (southern) bank of Logar Rod (Lowgar River). CAVE CLIMATE: 15°C in the tube and 28°C at the entrance (at daytime?) on 19th July 1957.Small pits descent into an 8 or 9 m long tube (note 1) with little humidity which is situated in a conglomerate cliff near a water reservoir in the vicinity of Sorkh Ab (note 2) above the left (southern) bank of Logar Rod (Lowgar River). CAVE CLIMATE: 15°C in the tube and 28°C at the entrance (at daytime?) on 19th July 1957.

Documents

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History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1957.07.19: Knut LINDBERG (1961a: 6-7) visited, explored, observed and tried to collect cave life. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

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