Khapah, Badel (Samuch)
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Location
Near the village of Badil (or Daouly Kamar Badil) in a tributary valley to the Kunar rud (Konar Valley), and about 3 km from Narang (note 2).
Description
General descriptions
Samotch Khapah (note 1) is a wet cave and consists of one solitary gallery shaped by the action of water. CAVE DESCRIPTION: The entrance (1.5 m wide and more than 1.5 m high), not far up in the rocky slope of a marble hill, gives access to a 13 m long gallery to a rift (8 to 10 cm wide, 30 cm high) which emits the noise of roaring water and continues in a small, 50 cm large, and water-worn trench (originally: -rigole-). The ceiling height decreases from 3 m (about halfway in) to 1.6 m (at a kind of gate) to reach more than 2 m in the far end. CAVE CONTENTS: There is no bat guano. The floor consists of soil and stones. CAVE LIFE: LINDBERG (1958: 137) redords to have collected Oligochaeta, Mollusca, Diplopoda, Chilopoda, Collembola, Machilida, Blattida, Mantida (at the entrance), Gryllida, Coleoptera (Carabiqua), Formicida, Arachnida (Oiliones), Acaria. JUBERTHIE & DECU (2001: 1747) list Insecta: Thysanura: Machilidae: Haslundichilis lindbergi WYGODZINSKY; Insecta: Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Eremogryllodes major CHOPARD.
Documents
Bibliography 06/01/2018Caves nearby
Distance (km) | Name | Length (m) | Depth (m) |
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18.2 | GHAOUAÏ KAND (Grotte) | ||
22.0 | SHAMUN (Samuch) | ||
25.4 | NURGAL (Cave at) | ||
32.5 | QACHQAR ou LAÏDJÉH (Grotte) | ||
53.4 | KHWAR QALEH (Cave in the) | ||
53.4 | MUMMIYA SAMUCH, Jalala | ||
103.5 | DEKIA, Mount Ghardom (Cave at) | ||
115.6 | BARIKOT TUNNEL 1 (Upper) | ||
115.6 | BARIKOT TUNNEL 2 (Lower) |