JON (Ghar i)

(ولسوالی سالنگ - AF)
35.250000,69.166700
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

The two cave entrances leading Ghar-i Jon (note 1) are locally well known. Man-made walls near the entrance, rock art (engravings) and disturbed pottery in the western branch indicate an archaeological potential (SPELEOLOGIE AFGHANE 1975). CAVE DESCRIPTION 1: One obvious entrance (9 m wide and 7 m high) and a hidden entrance (obliterated by fallen boulders) to two passages. The north-west Passage (on average 2 m high) runs after some 250 m into a pool of liquid mud. The West Passage leads after about 100 m to a 4 m climb up into a chamber with bats. The cave contains speleothems, stalagmites, stalactites, columns, gour pools (SPELEOLOGIE AFGHANE 1975: 20-23 cave plan on page 21, cross-sections on page 22). CAVE POTENTIAL: : Good potential. Not pushed to a conclusion. SITUATION above the right bank of Salang river valley, and at a distance of 10 walking minutes from kilometre stone 97.2 on the road from Kabul to Mazar-i Sharif. CAVE LIFE: Chiroptera (SPELEOLOGIE AFGHANE 1975); Arachnid: Pseudoscorpiones: Chernitidae: Megachernes afghanicus Beier (JUBERTHIE & DECU 2001: 1745); Insecta: Coleoptera: Cholevidae: Eocatops lindbergi Coiffait recovered 1975 (JUBERTHIE & DECU 2001: 1748).: Pseudoscorpiones: Chernitidae: Megachernes afghanicus Beier (JUBERTHIE & DECU 2001: 1745); Insecta: Coleoptera: Cholevidae: Eocatops lindbergi Coiffait recovered 1975 (JUBERTHIE & DECU 2001: 1748).

Documents

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History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1975 August: Montserrat Ubach (E.R.E. Catalunya, Barcelona), Claude Chabert and Nicole Boullier (Spéléo Club de Paris) explored and mapped (CHABERT & UBACH 1975, 1978; SPELEOLOGIE AFGHANE 1975: 20-23; COURBON & CHABERT edited by BOSTED & LINDSLEY 1989: 121). Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Caves nearby

Distance (km)NameLength (m)Depth (m)
0.0P. K. 103.2, Salang (Grotte du)
0.0P. K. 102.1, Salang (Grotte du)
0.0Canyon 1, Salang (Grotte du)
0.0Canyon 2, Salang (Grotte du)
0.0CANYON 3, Salang (Grotte du)
0.0Salang (Grotte-résurgence de la)
0.0HOTEL, Salang (Grotte de la)
0.6Ab Bar Amara (Ghar)
0.6Kaftar Khana