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A blowhole system always contains three main features: a catchment entrance, a compression cavern and an expelling port. The arrangement, angle and size of these three features determine the force of the air to water ratio that is ejected from the port. [6] The blowhole feature tends to occur in the most distal section of a littoral cave. As ...
A blowhole is a cavity formed when a joint between a sea cave (formed by erosion) and the land surface above the cave becomes enlarged. The sea cave and the land surface become conjoined when the roof of the cave collapses.
Blowhole may refer to: Blowhole (anatomy), the hole at the top of a whale's or other cetacean's head; Blowhole (geology), a hole at the inland end of a sea cave
The Alofaaga Blowholes, also known as the Taga Blowholes, are a natural feature located in the district of Palauli, south west of Salelologa wharf on the island of Savai'i in Samoa.
Closeup of Nakalele Blowhole Warning sign at Nakalele Point. Nakalele Point is a land mass on the eastern edge of the northern tip of the island of Maui in the state of Hawaiʻi. In Hawaiian, Nakalele or Nā-kālele means "the leaning". The Point is known for its blowhole and has become notable for its dangerous conditions when waves crash in.
The blowhole is most active when the tide is high and the winds are strong, [3] and it can shoot sea spray up to thirty feet high in the air. [4] Hālona Point is a tourist spot, with visitors coming for the scenery, the beach at the cove, and in the winter as a spot to go to see humpback whales or Honu turtles (Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles).
A water resources borehole into the chalk aquifer under the North Downs, England at Albury. Engineers and environmental consultants use the term borehole to collectively describe all of the various types of holes drilled as part of a geotechnical investigation or environmental site assessment (a so-called Phase II ESA).
Calder's Geo, Shetland Geo of Sclaites at Duncansby Head, Caithness. A geo or gio (/ ɡ j oʊ / GYOH, from Old Norse gjá [1]) is an inlet, a gully or a narrow and deep cleft in the face of a cliff.