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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.
Sand boil, also known as sand volcano – Cone formed by the ejection of sand on a surface from a central point; Sandhill – Type of ecological community or xeric wildfire-maintained ecosystem; Sandur – Plain formed from glacier sediment transported by meltwater; Scowle – Type of landscape feature; Scree – Broken rock fragments at base ...
Bering Sinkhole – natural limestone sinkhole in Texas used for prehistoric burials [4] Big Basin Prairie Preserve – St. Jacob's Well, Kansas, a water-filled sinkhole which lies in the Little Basin, and the Big Basin, a 1.5-kilometre-wide (1 mi) crater-like depression; Blue Hole (Castalia) – a fresh water pond located in Castalia, Erie ...
The Dead Sea is disappearing at an alarming rate, leaving behind thousands of sinkholes that are chipping away at the coastline's vibrant and touristy atmosphere. The Dead Sea - which is actually ...
Sinkhole: a depression formed as a result of the collapse of rocks lying above a hollow. This is common in karst regions. Kettle: a shallow, sediment-filled body of water formed by melting glacial remnants in terminal moraines. [3] Thermokarst hollow: caused by volume loss of the ground as the result of permafrost thawing. Impact-related:
A sinkhole was discovered at on Wednesday evening near the base of Ocean City's Isle of Wight Bay Bridge, Route 90. Here's what caused it, plus more.
The Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza, Mexico. Cenotes are surface connections to subterranean water bodies. [5] While the best-known cenotes are large open-water pools measuring tens of meters in diameter, such as those at Chichen Itza in Mexico, the greatest number of cenotes are smaller sheltered sites and do not necessarily have any surface exposed water.
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.