Jon (Ghar i)
35.250000,69.166700
Location
Above the right bank of Salang river valley, and at a distance of 10 walking minutes from kilometre stone 97.2 on the road from Kabul to Mazar-i Sharif.
Description
Descriptions
The two cave entrances leading Ghar-i Jon (note 1) are locally well known. Man-made walls near the entrance, rock art (engravings) and disturbed pottery in the western branch indicate an archaeological potential (SPELEOLOGIE AFGHANE 1975). CAVE DESCRIPTION 1: One obvious entrance (9 m wide and 7 m high) and a hidden entrance (obliterated by fallen boulders) to two passages. The north-west Passage (on average 2 m high) runs after some 250 m into a pool of liquid mud. The West Passage leads after about 100 m to a 4 m climb up into a chamber with bats. The cave contains speleothems, stalagmites, stalactites, columns, gour pools (SPELEOLOGIE AFGHANE 1975: 20-23 cave plan on page 21, cross-sections on page 22). CAVE POTENTIAL: Good potential. Not pushed to a conclusion. CAVE LIFE: Chiroptera (SPELEOLOGIE AFGHANE 1975); Arachnid: Pseudoscorpiones: Chernitidae: Megachernes afghanicus Beier (JUBERTHIE & DECU 2001: 1745); Insecta: Coleoptera: Cholevidae: Eocatops lindbergi Coiffait recovered 1975 (JUBERTHIE & DECU 2001: 1748).: Pseudoscorpiones: Chernitidae: Megachernes afghanicus Beier (JUBERTHIE & DECU 2001: 1745); Insecta: Coleoptera: Cholevidae: Eocatops lindbergi Coiffait recovered 1975 (JUBERTHIE & DECU 2001: 1748).