NURGAL (Cave at)
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Description
A huge cave entrance (13 to 14 m wide, 4 to 5 m high) gives access to a large, twilight-lit, and ascending chamber (22 m long) with a dark lateral passage on the left-hand side (note 1). SITUATION: At a distance of 3 km (along the road?) north of Nurgal (note 2) lies the cave high up in a marble cliff and some 40 vertical metres below the level of the road in the Kunar rud (Konar, Kuner Valley). CAVE LIFE: LINDBERG (1961a) lists Arthropoda: Hexapoda: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Eocatops lindbergi Petroviz; Coleoptera: Hyniodinae gen. et. sp. indet.; Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: gonocephalumermischi Kaszab; Arachnoidea: Chelonethi: Olpium intermedium Beier; Araneina: Nesticus concolor Roewer. JUBERTHIE & DECU (2001: 1746) add Arachnida: Acari terrestria: Uropodidae: Mesoteneriffa steinböcki IRK.A huge cave entrance (13 to 14 m wide, 4 to 5 m high) gives access to a large, twilight-lit, and ascending chamber (22 m long) with a dark lateral passage on the left-hand side (note 1). SITUATION: At a distance of 3 km (along the road?) north of Nurgal (note 2) lies the cave high up in a marble cliff and some 40 vertical metres below the level of the road in the Kunar rud (Konar, Kuner Valley). CAVE LIFE: LINDBERG (1961a) lists Arthropoda: Hexapoda: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Eocatops lindbergi Petroviz; Coleoptera: Hyniodinae gen. et. sp. indet.; Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: gonocephalumermischi Kaszab; Arachnoidea: Chelonethi: Olpium intermedium Beier; Araneina: Nesticus concolor Roewer. JUBERTHIE & DECU (2001: 1746) add Arachnida: Acari terrestria: Uropodidae: Mesoteneriffa steinböcki IRK.
Caves nearby
Distance (km) | Name | Length (m) | Depth (m) |
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7.1 | QACHQAR ou LAÏDJÉH (Grotte) | ||
14.4 | LAOUR PINDI (Grotte) | ||
21.3 | DARA-i NUR (Ma'dan) | ||
24.2 | Mirzakheyl (Caves at) | ||
25.4 | Khapah, Badel (Samuch) | ||
27.2 | Girdi Kas (Karez / Kariz) [Gerdi Kac] [Gerdi Kats] | ||
28.0 | Sang-e Surakh, Chahardeh | ||
41.0 | SHAMUN (Samuch) | ||
43.5 | GHAOUAÏ KAND (Grotte) |