GHAOUAÏ KAND (Grotte)

اسدابادښار (اسد آباد ولسوالۍ - AF)
34.866700,71.133300
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A rock shelter (note 1) in the marble cliff face of a ravine without recognised name situated at a distance of about 2 km (along the road?) in an unspecified direction from -Tchagatéh Saraï- (note 2). CAVE DESCRIPTION: Two cave entrances —the one on the right-hand side is triangular in shape— give access to a high vaulted ante-chamber with many side passages and an inclined rocky ledge, about 3 m above the floor and approximately 3 m wide and 4 m long. On the left-hand side of the main cave entrance are cavities found of which one (about 2.5 m wide with an initially low ceiling that rises further inside to standing height) is some 7 or 8 m long. Here, on the right-hand side, drops water from the ceiling and forms speleothems: small stalactites and one fat but short stalagmite. On the right of this cavity one finds a small, circular excavation. CAVE LIFE: LINDBERG (1958: 138) records to have collected Diptera (larvae) and Arachnida (Araneida).A rock shelter (note 1) in the marble cliff face of a ravine without recognised name situated at a distance of about 2 km (along the road?) in an unspecified direction from -Tchagatéh Saraï- (note 2). CAVE DESCRIPTION: Two cave entrances —the one on the right-hand side is triangular in shape— give access to a high vaulted ante-chamber with many side passages and an inclined rocky ledge, about 3 m above the floor and approximately 3 m wide and 4 m long. On the left-hand side of the main cave entrance are cavities found of which one (about 2.5 m wide with an initially low ceiling that rises further inside to standing height) is some 7 or 8 m long. Here, on the right-hand side, drops water from the ceiling and forms speleothems: small stalactites and one fat but short stalagmite. On the right of this cavity one finds a small, circular excavation. CAVE LIFE: LINDBERG (1958: 138) records to have collected Diptera (larvae) and Arachnida (Araneida).

Documents

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History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1958.02.01: Knut LINDBERG (1958: 138, 1961a: 26) visited, took altimeter readings, explored, and collected cave life. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

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