NURGAL (Cave at)

(نورگل ولسوالۍ - AF)
34.616700,70.766700
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

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.

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History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1958.02.06: Knut LINDBERG (1958: 137, 1961a: 25) visited, took altimeter readings, explored, and collected cave life. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

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