Deo, Shekhabad - Cijan (Ghar)
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Description
Various descriptions
A small, humid and twilight-lit cave (note 1) or rock shelter (about 4 or 5 m wide, 5 m long and 1.7 m high) with a floor covered with soil and droppings of goat and sheep. SITUATION: Near Cheikhabad (note 2) and about 6 km west of Dag Baghri (note 3) at a place called Cijan (note 4). The cave entrance itself lies in a limestone outcrop at the foot of a spur of a hill (in French: Kouh-Ladou = Koh Ladu?), and on the right bank of a torrent (dry streambed? without known name). CAVE LIFE: LINDBERG (1958: 116) lists Chilopoda, Diptera (Sciaridae), Pseudoscorpionida, Arachnida (Araneida). According to JUBERTHIE & DECU (2001: 1745) yielded Grotte de Cheikhabad, Tchidjan snails identified by OMODEO (1959? or 1962?) as Eiseniella tetraedra f. typica SAVIGNY (Oligochaeta: Lumbrichidae).
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Bibliography 06/01/2018Caves nearby
Distance (km) | Name | Length (m) | Depth (m) |
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6.4 | SHER, Shekhabad - Bergi (Ghar) | ||
7.9 | GUNDAKI, Shekhabad - Bergi (Ghar) | ||
8.1 | Deo, Shekhabad - Bergi (Ghar) | ||
31.9 | GHAZNI - KABUL SPRING | ||
44.4 | Sang-e Surakh, Muhhammad Agha | ||
45.2 | Qal'Eh-ye Safid (Cave at) | ||
48.2 | DAHAN GHAR, Tang-e Lalandar | ||
48.4 | KARAPAH ROAD, Murdar Dand - Gandawah (Caves on the) | ||
50.4 | SORKH AB 1 (Cave at) |