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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. Some are caused by karst processes—for example, the chemical dissolution of carbonate rocks [1] or suffosion processes. [2]
The Red Lake sinkhole in Croatia. A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. The term is sometimes used to refer to doline, enclosed depressions that are also known as shakeholes, and to openings where surface water enters into underground passages known as ponor, swallow hole or swallet.
The name derives from a word used by the lowland Yucatec Maya—tsʼonoʼot—to refer to any location with accessible groundwater. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In Mexico the Yucatán Peninsula alone has an estimated 10,000 cenotes, [ 4 ] water-filled sinkholes naturally formed by the collapse of limestone, and located across the peninsula.
Playa de Gulpiyuri is a flooded sinkhole [1] with an inland beach located near Llanes, in Asturias Northern Spain, around 100 m from the Cantabrian Sea. [2] It is the shortest beach in the world. [ citation needed ]
Sinkholes of the United States (1 C, 26 P) This page was last edited on 18 June 2024, at 17:52 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Spain’s national weather service said it rained more in eight hours in the Valencian town of Chiva than it had in the preceding 20 months. Satellite pictures show Valencia after, left, and ...
Three counties in Florida's Tampa area make up a region sometimes called "sinkhole alley" because of the over 20,000 sinkholes there, almost 75% of the sinkholes in the whole state, according to ...
Sinkholes filled with water, also known as blue holes, completely surround the island nation of The Bahamas, and now OceanGate’s co-founder wants to explore the deepest of them all.