LAGAT CAVE, Ebrahimkhel
34.185300,70.099200
Description
A small cave (note 1), which consists of a tube that runs after unknown length into what appears to be an impenetrable collapse. SITUATION: At a linear distance of about 45 km approximately south-west of Jalalabad (N34°25'49”: E070°27'10”), and in a ravine below a village called Ebrahimkhel (note 2), which lies at an unspecified distance (about 18 km) in an unrecognised direction (approximately ESE) from Khogay (note 3). The cave entrance lies at a distance of about 3 km in an unspecified direction from Grotte –>Taghah China and in a steep escarpment strewn with huge and densely packed granite and limestone boulders. CAVE LIFE: LINDBERG (1958: 134) collected (from the entrance) Isopoda, Pseudoscorpion, Arachnida (Opilionida). JUBERTHIE & DECU (2001: 1745) list Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones: Neobisiidae: Microcreagris herculea BEIER, and (rather from Grotte –>Taghah China) Insecta: Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Eremogryllodes major CHOPARD.A small cave (note 1), which consists of a tube that runs after unknown length into what appears to be an impenetrable collapse. SITUATION: At a linear distance of about 45 km approximately south-west of Jalalabad (N34°25'49”: E070°27'10”), and in a ravine below a village called Ebrahimkhel (note 2), which lies at an unspecified distance (about 18 km) in an unrecognised direction (approximately ESE) from Khogay (note 3). The cave entrance lies at a distance of about 3 km in an unspecified direction from Grotte –>Taghah China and in a steep escarpment strewn with huge and densely packed granite and limestone boulders. CAVE LIFE: LINDBERG (1958: 134) collected (from the entrance) Isopoda, Pseudoscorpion, Arachnida (Opilionida). JUBERTHIE & DECU (2001: 1745) list Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones: Neobisiidae: Microcreagris herculea BEIER, and (rather from Grotte –>Taghah China) Insecta: Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Eremogryllodes major CHOPARD.
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Bibliography 06/01/2018Caves nearby
Distance (km) | Name | Length (m) | Depth (m) |
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0.0 | TAGHAH CHINAH / CHINEH / CINA, Kaméh Zavéh (Cave at) | ||
11.6 | Tora Bora Caves | ||
13.2 | Spīn Ghar | ||
21.8 | KAKRAK (Caves at) | ||
22.5 | Azdar Khaneh | ||
24.6 | KAFTAR KHANA, Barina: Qal'eh-ye Malik | ||
25.1 | QAL'EH-YE MALIK, Barina (Caves at) | ||
28.9 | OBERON, Kajari Tangi (Grot of) | ||
29.2 | KAJARI TANGI (Caves in the) |