SORKH AB 2 (Cave at)

دمحمدآغی ولسوالی (محمد آغې ولسوالۍ - AF)
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Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A squeeze descends into a five or six metres long tube (note 1) near the summit of a small hillock in a collapsing state of preservation. Situated about 500 m uphill from the first cave at –>Sorkh Ab, again above the left (southern) bank of Logar Rod (Lowgar River) but more than a kilometre away from it. CAVE LIFE: 18°C in the tube and 37°C at the entrance (at daytime?) on 19th July 1957.A squeeze descends into a five or six metres long tube (note 1) near the summit of a small hillock in a collapsing state of preservation. Situated about 500 m uphill from the first cave at –>Sorkh Ab, again above the left (southern) bank of Logar Rod (Lowgar River) but more than a kilometre away from it. CAVE LIFE: 18°C in the tube and 37°C at the entrance (at daytime?) on 19th July 1957.

Documents

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History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1957.07.19: Knut LINDBERG (1961a: 7) visited, explored, observed and tried to collect cave life. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

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