BAZAR VALLEY CAVES

(Khyber Agency - PK)
33.979700,71.058100
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

In the Bazar Valley [note 1]… occur very extensive beds of conglomerate and gravel covering the plain to a depth of quite 50 feet [15.24 m] in places and deposited upon upturned edges of the Triassic beds [note 2]. It is in these conglomerates that the numerous cave dwellings [note 3] of the Afridis have been excavated (Glennie, E A circa 1948 s.a. Mss -Preliminary record- after Mem. Geol. S. of I. [1898?] Vol. XXVIII p 114 (not seen).In the Bazar Valley [note 1]… occur very extensive beds of conglomerate and gravel covering the plain to a depth of quite 50 feet [15.24 m] in places and deposited upon upturned edges of the Triassic beds [note 2]. It is in these conglomerates that the numerous cave dwellings [note 3] of the Afridis have been excavated (Glennie, E A circa 1948 s.a. Mss -Preliminary record- after Mem. Geol. S. of I. [1898?] Vol. XXVIII p 114 (not seen).

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