Bagram Cave System

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Blowing potholes (note 1) without recognised dimensions occur in a hill of good palaeozoic limestone and are suspected to communicate with a supposedly extensive cave system (RATHJENS, C 1957b: 287-288, illustration 2). This cave is required to explain a series of perennially strong karst springs (yielding about 6 cubic metres per second) which rise at the foot of a hill (without recognised name), which is undercut by the river Panjshir and too small to serve as an autochthonous catchment area. Possibly identical with karst spring at –>Agrabad. The assumed cave system is suspected to represent a fossil karst, which was buried and sealed in early Tertiary age, recently lifted (RATHJENS 1957a) and rejuvenated by allochthonous water draining a catchment area adjacent to the karstified hill (RATHJENS 1957b). SITUATION: At an unspecified spot somewhere in the vicinity of a Begram (note 2), which lies near the ancient town of Kapisa (note 3) and, according to RATHJENS (1957b: 287), -west- (ic! More likely: at a linear distance of 10 km ESE) of Chaharikar (note 4). The cave bearing hill itself rises, according to RATHJENS (1957b: 287), above the right (western, possibly confused with left? = eastern) bank of the Panjshir in the Koh-i- Daman plain (note 5).Blowing potholes (note 1) without recognised dimensions occur in a hill of good palaeozoic limestone and are suspected to communicate with a supposedly extensive cave system (RATHJENS, C 1957b: 287-288, illustration 2). This cave is required to explain a series of perennially strong karst springs (yielding about 6 cubic metres per second) which rise at the foot of a hill (without recognised name), which is undercut by the river Panjshir and too small to serve as an autochthonous catchment area. Possibly identical with karst spring at –>Agrabad. The assumed cave system is suspected to represent a fossil karst, which was buried and sealed in early Tertiary age, recently lifted (RATHJENS 1957a) and rejuvenated by allochthonous water draining a catchment area adjacent to the karstified hill (RATHJENS 1957b). SITUATION: At an unspecified spot somewhere in the vicinity of a Begram (note 2), which lies near the ancient town of Kapisa (note 3) and, according to RATHJENS (1957b: 287), -west- (Blowing potholes (note 1) without recognised dimensions occur in a hill of good palaeozoic limestone and are suspected to communicate with a supposedly extensive cave system (RATHJENS, C 1957b: 287-288, illustration 2). This cave is required to explain a series of perennially strong karst springs (yielding about 6 cubic metres per second) which rise at the foot of a hill (without recognised name), which is undercut by the river Panjshir and too small to serve as an autochthonous catchment area. Possibly identical with karst spring at –>Agrabad. The assumed cave system is suspected to represent a fossil karst, which was buried and sealed in early Tertiary age, recently lifted (RATHJENS 1957a) and rejuvenated by allochthonous water draining a catchment area adjacent to the karstified hill (RATHJENS 1957b). SITUATION: At an unspecified spot somewhere in the vicinity of a Begram (note 2), which lies near the ancient town of Kapisa (note 3) and, according to RATHJENS (1957b: 287), -west- (Blowing potholes (note 1) without recognised dimensions occur in a hill of good palaeozoic limestone and are suspected to communicate with a supposedly extensive cave system (RATHJENS, C 1957b: 287-288, illustration 2). This cave is required to explain a series of perennially strong karst springs (yielding about 6 cubic metres per second) which rise at the foot of a hill (without recognised name), which is undercut by the river Panjshir and too small to serve as an autochthonous catchment area. Possibly identical with karst spring at –>Agrabad. The assumed cave system is suspected to represent a fossil karst, which was buried and sealed in early Tertiary age, recently lifted (RATHJENS 1957a) and rejuvenated by allochthonous water draining a catchment area adjacent to the karstified hill (RATHJENS 1957b). SITUATION: At an unspecified spot somewhere in the vicinity of a Begram (note 2), which lies near the ancient town of Kapisa (note 3) and, according to RATHJENS (1957b: 287), -west- (Blowing potholes (note 1) without recognised dimensions occur in a hill of good palaeozoic limestone and are suspected to communicate with a supposedly extensive cave system (RATHJENS, C 1957b: 287-288, illustration 2). This cave is required to explain a series of perennially strong karst springs (yielding about 6 cubic metres per second) which rise at the foot of a hill (without recognised name), which is undercut by the river Panjshir and too small to serve as an autochthonous catchment area. Possibly identical with karst spring at –>Agrabad. The assumed cave system is suspected to represent a fossil karst, which was buried and sealed in early Tertiary age, recently lifted (RATHJENS 1957a) and rejuvenated by allochthonous water draining a catchment area adjacent to the karstified hill (RATHJENS 1957b). SITUATION: At an unspecified spot somewhere in the vicinity of a Begram (note 2), which lies near the ancient town of Kapisa (note 3) and, according to RATHJENS (1957b: 287), -west- (ic! More likely: at a linear distance of 10 km ESE) of Chaharikar (note 4). The cave bearing hill itself rises, according to RATHJENS (1957b: 287), above the right (western, possibly confused with left? = eastern) bank of the Panjshir in the Koh-i- Daman plain (note 5).