Karluk Cave
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The Karlyuk cave is located on the southwestern slope of the Kugitang-Tau ridge, 7 km east of the village of Karlyuk.
It was formed in Upper Jurassic limestones penetrated by veins of gypsum up to 0.2 m wide. The entrance to the Karlyuk cave is a 0.5 m high and about 3 m wide slit that leads to the main gallery, which looks like a wide and high passage.
This gallery is confined to a tectonic fissure of northeastern direction. There are several grottoes in the cave. The largest of them, the Stalactite Grotto, reaches 190 meters in length and 10 meters in height. The cave is dry. Its floor is covered with limestone blocks covered with a layer of dusty clay. There are deep wells and organ pipes.
The cave is adorned with calcite and gypsum concretionary formations. Stalagmites reach 6 m in height and 1 m in diameter. Large transparent crystals of gypsum are interesting. The air temperature was 20°. The length of the filmed part of the cave is 1050 meters.
The Karlyuk cave is a part of the Pamir-Tyaninan speleological country.
