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Berliner Höhlenkundliche Berichte, Volume 12: Speleological Project Ghar Katalehkhor (Zanjan / Iran)

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By: Sirous Arshadi(Author), Michael Laumanns(Author)
56 pages, colour photos. b/w maps
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Language: English with bilingual abstract in English and German

A speleological project in September/Octüber 2003, supervised by the Geological Survey of Iran (GSI), and supported both by the GSI and the government of Zanjan province, firmly established Ghar Katalehkhor (also called: Ghar Kotalehkhor) as the longest cave of Iran at 12.860 m in length. The surveying team consisted of four participants: Mr. H. Akbarzadeh (GSI), Mr. Javad Ashjari (Geological Department of Shiraz University), Mr. M. Laumanns (Germany) and Mr. Reinhold Scherrer (Switzerland). The work within the Zanjan provincial government was co–ordinated by Dr. S. Arshadi (Iran/Germany).

Ghar Katalehkhor was discovered in 1965 by mountaineers from Hamadan. It is an anastomotic multilevel cave with a large main gallery, many coulisses, parallel passages, much breakdown and extensive calcite formation, as well as superb crystals that cover complete chambers for dozens of metres (e.g. the approximately 100 m long “Wedding Hall").

The cave is open to tourists and has a 1250 m long visitor path that is partly made up of steel bridges. From the terminal point of the show cave the visitors have to walk back the whole distance to the entrance and thus negotiate an underground walk of 2,5 km.

Ghar Katalehkhor is developed in Oligocene/Miocene limestone in the northern flank of an anticline. It is suggested that the cave was mainly created by phreatic corrosion in a still water milieu. A speleogenetic model is presented in this report.

Contents

Abstract / Zusammenfassung     4

1     Acknowledgements     5
2     Introduction     6
3     History of Exploration of Ghar Katalehkhor     8
4     Geological and hydrological settings     9
5     Description of Ghar Katalehkhor     13
5.1     First (main) level     13
5.2     Second level     16
5.3     Third level     17
6     Speleogenesis of Ghar Katalehkhor     17
7     Outlook and recommendations     19
8     References     19

Annex 1:     Survey of Ghar Katalehkhor     
Annex 2:     Photo tables

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Report Out of Print
By: Sirous Arshadi(Author), Michael Laumanns(Author)
56 pages, colour photos. b/w maps
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