HASAN ABDAL (Cave at)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Not only four similar openings but also an abandoned (relic) karst spring or the relic of a vadose cave, which has been abandoned by flowing water, was interpreted to indicate a subterranean drainage system in the limestone (note 1) occurring at Hasan Abdal (note 2). CAVE DESCRIPTION: Just on the Nowshera side [note 3] of the road bridge at Hasan Abdal a cliff of massive limestone has a promising looking cave opening. This is an interesting solution chamber about 6 feet by 5 feet [1.8 mby 1.5 m] and 5 feet [1.5 m] high with a small solution tube opening into it at the far end (Glennie, E A circa 1948 s.a. Mss: Preliminary record). CAVE POTENTIAL: In the cliff face outside are four similar openings. There is evidence that in the past strong springs have issued here. The area is promising but most of the rock is very broken, and I could get no local reports of caves (Glennie, E A circa 1948 s.a. Mss: Preliminary record). IMAGINED HYDROLOGY: An apparently unmentionable contributor to Mem Geol. S. of I. Vol LV p 161 (note 4) draws the attention of gentlemen with a taste for fabulous hydrography to a tale according to which Both in the Salt range [note 5] and in the Kala Chitta [note 6] the Laki limestone is a source of vigorous springs. Similar springs occur at the foot of the Hasan Abdal hill. […] In the Hasan Abdal Hill it is impossible to suppose that the springs of abundant perennial water derived their supply from so small a catchment area. They evidently travel from some distant source, possibly the Himalayan foothills to the North (Glennie, E A circa 1948 s.a. Mss: Preliminary record).Not only four similar openings but also an abandoned (relic) karst spring or the relic of a vadose cave, which has been abandoned by flowing water, was interpreted to indicate a subterranean drainage system in the limestone (note 1) occurring at Hasan Abdal (note 2). CAVE DESCRIPTION: Just on the Nowshera side [note 3] of the road bridge at Hasan Abdal a cliff of massive limestone has a promising looking cave opening. This is an interesting solution chamber about 6 feet by 5 feet [1.8 mby 1.5 m] and 5 feet [1.5 m] high with a small solution tube opening into it at the far end (Glennie, E A circa 1948 s.a. Mss: Preliminary record). CAVE POTENTIAL: In the cliff face outside are four similar openings. There is evidence that in the past strong springs have issued here. The area is promising but most of the rock is very broken, and I could get no local reports of caves (Glennie, E A circa 1948 s.a. Mss: Preliminary record). IMAGINED HYDROLOGY: An apparently unmentionable contributor to Mem Geol. S. of I. Vol LV p 161 (note 4) draws the attention of gentlemen with a taste for fabulous hydrography to a tale according to which Both in the Salt range [note 5] and in the Kala Chitta [note 6] the Laki limestone is a source of vigorous springs. Similar springs occur at the foot of the Hasan Abdal hill. […] In the Hasan Abdal Hill it is impossible to suppose that the springs of abundant perennial water derived their supply from so small a catchment area. They evidently travel from some distant source, possibly the Himalayan foothills to the North (Glennie, E A circa 1948 s.a. Mss: Preliminary record).