SHOGHORE (Caves at)

(ضلع چترال - PK)
36.021900,71.757200
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Among an unspecified number of rock shelters or caves (the most extensive almost 6 m long) is one, which contains a couple of foot-long (circa 30 cm high) stalactites (speleothems).SITUATION (after DURRANT et al. 1979: 20; TURNER 1977a: 42-43; WILSON 1976: 103;1977: 14): About 30 m above the level of the river and in Carboniferous and Eocene limestones (note 1) near the populated place called Shogor or Shoghore (note 2), where a river called Lotkuhur (note 3) has cut an almost 3 km long gorge into the limestones outcropping in an area about 16 miles (26 km along the road or 22 km in a direct line) north of Chitral town (N35°50'31”: E071°46'55”).Among an unspecified number of rock shelters or caves (the most extensive almost 6 m long) is one, which contains a couple of foot-long (circa 30 cm high) stalactites (speleothems).SITUATION (after DURRANT et al. 1979: 20; TURNER 1977a: 42-43; WILSON 1976: 103;1977: 14): About 30 m above the level of the river and in Carboniferous and Eocene limestones (note 1) near the populated place called Shogor or Shoghore (note 2), where a river called Lotkuhur (note 3) has cut an almost 3 km long gorge into the limestones outcropping in an area about 16 miles (26 km along the road or 22 km in a direct line) north of Chitral town (N35°50'31”: E071°46'55”).

Documents

Bibliography 06/01/2018
  • Durrant G A, Smart C M, Turner J E K & Wilson, J M 1979, 1981 (Himalaya Underground 1976); Turner, John E K 1977a; Wilson, Jane M 1976, 1977.

Histoire

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

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