SABZAK (Cave at)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A moist talus cave (6 to 8 m wide, 3 to 4 m high, 10 or 12 m long) with a floor of earth and stones occurs between (gravitationally or tectonically) dislocated limestone boulders (note 1). SITUATION (LINDBERG 1962a: 9): Somewhere above the left bank of a torrent (stream, no name mentioned; possibly the seasonal Naveh-ye Sabzak / Nawa-i- Sabzak) and about 300 m downstream of a spring called Sabz Tchachmeh (note 2). This spring is placed at an unrecognised distance north-east of Oruzgan town (note 3) and at the foot of a pass called Kotal Tchakman in Ajiristan (note 4). CAVE LIFE: LINDBERG (1962a: 9) records to have collected Oligochaeta, Isopoda, Diplopoda, Chilopoda, Coleoptera (Staphylinida, Tenebrionida).A moist talus cave (6 to 8 m wide, 3 to 4 m high, 10 or 12 m long) with a floor of earth and stones occurs between (gravitationally or tectonically) dislocated limestone boulders (note 1). SITUATION (LINDBERG 1962a: 9): Somewhere above the left bank of a torrent (stream, no name mentioned; possibly the seasonal Naveh-ye Sabzak / Nawa-i- Sabzak) and about 300 m downstream of a spring called Sabz Tchachmeh (note 2). This spring is placed at an unrecognised distance north-east of Oruzgan town (note 3) and at the foot of a pass called Kotal Tchakman in Ajiristan (note 4). CAVE LIFE: LINDBERG (1962a: 9) records to have collected Oligochaeta, Isopoda, Diplopoda, Chilopoda, Coleoptera (Staphylinida, Tenebrionida).