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The Xiaozhai Tiankeng has been well known to local people since ancient times. Xiaozhai is the name of an abandoned village nearby and literally means "little village", and "Tiankeng" means Heavenly Pit, a unique regional name for sinkholes in China. A 2,800-step staircase has been constructed in order to facilitate tourism. [2]
Videos of the Guangxi sinkholes have gone viral on social media. What is a fun and daring feat for young people is a source of much-needed revenue in a province that was only recently lifted out ...
After half of the Seacliff State Beach Pier near Santa Cruz broke off into the water during a winter storm in early 2023, the state park opted to remove the pier at the advice of a structural ...
The Great Blue Hole, a giant submarine sinkhole, near Ambergris Caye, Belize The following is a list of sinkholes , blue holes , dolines , crown holes , cenotes , and pit caves . A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer.
About 150 feet of pier section at the end of the Northern California wharf collapsed. The end of the pier that broke off had been shut down for repairs caused by prior storms.
The sinkhole was formed in karst terrain, which means rock below the surface can easily be dissolved by groundwater circulating through the bedrock. [5] The large hole measures over 1,000 feet in length, almost 500 feet wide and 630 feet deep, with a volume of over 176 million cubic feet. [ 6 ]
Section of Cliff Walk closed after sinkhole reported. ... Ledge Road or Bailey's Beach East. Temporary fencing warns of the closing of a section of the Cliff Walk after a sinkhole was found on ...
A remarkable topographic feature found in Xuan'en County is a 290-meter deep karst sinkhole, located near the village of Luoquanyan (锣圈岩 村). According to news reports, the sinkhole, which occupies around 100 mu (6 hectares), has its own unique ecosystem.