GHAOUAÏ KAND (Grotte)
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Description
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).
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Distance (km) | Name | Length (m) | Depth (m) |
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18.2 | Khapah, Badel (Samuch) | ||
22.3 | SHAMUN (Samuch) | ||
35.9 | KHWAR QALEH (Cave in the) | ||
35.9 | MUMMIYA SAMUCH, Jalala | ||
85.7 | DEKIA, Mount Ghardom (Cave at) | ||
101.7 | BUMBORET ONE CAVE | ||
101.7 | BUMBORET TWO CAVE | ||
101.9 | BIRIR VALLEY (Caves in) | ||
102.5 | BARIKOT TUNNEL 1 (Upper) |