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Blue Hole (Red Sea) – a submarine sinkhole around 94 m (308 feet) deep in east Sinai, a few kilometres north of Dahab, Egypt on the coast of the Red Sea. Dead Sea sinkholes; Dean's Blue Hole – the world's second deepest known salt water blue hole with an entrance below the sea level; in the Bahamas
Shaanxi tiankeng cluster, discovered in 2016, it is one of the largest in the world comprising forty-nine sinkholes and more than fifty funnels ranging from 50–100 metres in diameter. South China Karst, World Heritage Site; Stone Forest; Xiaozhai Tiankeng, also known as the Heavenly Pit, is the world's largest sinkhole. [3]
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]
Located in Florence, Oregon near Cape Perpetua, this gaping sinkhole in cook's chasm is a natural wonder of the world. Also known as spouting horn, at high tide or during winter storms, waves can ...
An elevation map of Grassy Cove in Cumberland County, Tennessee. Grassy Cove is North America's largest sinkhole. Sinkhole dimensions: [6] Watershed Area: 33.1770 km 2 (12.8097 sq mi) Watershed Perimeter: 42.1524 km (26.1923 mi) Sinkhole Area: 13.3112 km 2 (5.1395 sq mi) Sinkhole Perimeter: 35.7192 km (22.1949 mi) Sinkhole Depth: 39.97 m (131.1 ft)
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Officials determined that the massive 40-foot by 40-foot sinkhole that opened up on the I-80 in New Jersey was caused by an abandoned mineshaft. Julian Leshay Guadalupe/NorthJersey.com / USA TODAY ...
The Great Blue Hole is a large marine sinkhole off the coast of Belize. It lies near the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small atoll 70 km (43 mi) from the mainland and Belize City. The hole is circular in shape, 318 m (1,043 ft) across and 124 m (407 ft) deep. [1] [2] It has a surface area of 70,650 square metres (760,500 sq ft).