LANDI, Bathora (Kode)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An about 5 m wide and 2 m high cave entrance (note 1) at the level of the plains adjacent to Landi Sar, the cave housing hill, gives access to the relic of a formerly vadose resurgence cave, now abandoned by flowing water, and once, not very convincingly, was called -Kodi Ghara- (note 2). CAVE DESCRIPTION: The initial chamber (5 m wide, 2 m high, 12 m long) continues with crawl-sized passages and climbs into solutional fissures and tubes containing old calcite deposits. The visible cave floor is covered with reddish mud, moist but far from wet in the beginning of November. Speleothems include relics of a 12 cm thick perched floor and one calcite column (stalagnate), about 0.5 m diameter and more than a metre high, which is cracked by a tension fracture indicating a lateral tectonic dislocation in the range of several centimetre. SITUATION: About 4 km in a direct line SSW of –>Mian Ghundi. At a spot about 5.4 km along the road north of –>Lak Pass (1920 m asl) on the Mastung - Quetta Rod, a 4.5 km long dirt road leads eastwards to the wide spread -Bathora- village (note 3) with some buildings (Hasani) erected in the immediate vicinity of the cave, on the south side at the very base of Landi Sar (note 4), which rises from the surrounding plains at circa 1850 m to a height of 7719 feet / 2352 m asl (AMS sheet NH42-05, U602 series, 1959 edition). CAVE LIFE: Spiders (Aranea), rather red oloured cockroaches (Blattidae), pale woodlice, ants, crickets, bats (Chiroptera) and traces of porcupine (Hystrix) were seen on 3rd November 1997.An about 5 m wide and 2 m high cave entrance (note 1) at the level of the plains adjacent to Landi Sar, the cave housing hill, gives access to the relic of a formerly vadose resurgence cave, now abandoned by flowing water, and once, not very convincingly, was called -Kodi Ghara- (note 2). CAVE DESCRIPTION: The initial chamber (5 m wide, 2 m high, 12 m long) continues with crawl-sized passages and climbs into solutional fissures and tubes containing old calcite deposits. The visible cave floor is covered with reddish mud, moist but far from wet in the beginning of November. Speleothems include relics of a 12 cm thick perched floor and one calcite column (stalagnate), about 0.5 m diameter and more than a metre high, which is cracked by a tension fracture indicating a lateral tectonic dislocation in the range of several centimetre. SITUATION: About 4 km in a direct line SSW of –>Mian Ghundi. At a spot about 5.4 km along the road north of –>Lak Pass (1920 m asl) on the Mastung - Quetta Rod, a 4.5 km long dirt road leads eastwards to the wide spread -Bathora- village (note 3) with some buildings (Hasani) erected in the immediate vicinity of the cave, on the south side at the very base of Landi Sar (note 4), which rises from the surrounding plains at circa 1850 m to a height of 7719 feet / 2352 m asl (AMS sheet NH42-05, U602 series, 1959 edition). CAVE LIFE: Spiders (Aranea), rather red oloured cockroaches (Blattidae), pale woodlice, ants, crickets, bats (Chiroptera) and traces of porcupine (Hystrix) were seen on 3rd November 1997.