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Cedar Sink is a vertical-walled large depression or sinkhole in the ground, located in Edmonson County, Kentucky and contained within and managed by Mammoth Cave National Park. The sinkhole measures 300 feet (91.4 m) from the top sandstone plateau to the bottom of the sink and was caused by collapse of the surface soil.
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.
2014 National Corvette Museum sinkhole – a sinkhole at 350 Corvette Drive, Bowling Green, Kentucky Amberjack Hole – a blue hole located 48 km (30 mi) off the coast of Sarasota, Florida . Bayou Corne sinkhole – created from a collapsed underground salt dome cavern operated by Texas Brine Company and owned by Occidental Petroleum ...
Florida, Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Pennsylvania are the U.S. states where sinkholes are most likely to open up, according to the American Geosciences Institute.
The cause of the sinkhole has not yet been determined. ... Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas and Pennsylvania are prone to sinkholes as well, also because of their bedrock.
And, yes, sinkholes are often weather dependent. “Sinkholes of the South Jersey variety can happen anytime,” Maillet said. “Water infrastructure is particularly sensitive to freezing ...
The Great Blue Hole, located near Ambergris Caye, Belize Dean's Blue Hole, Long Island, Bahamas Watling's Blue Hole, San Salvador Island, Bahamas. A blue hole is a large marine cavern or sinkhole, which is open to the surface and has developed in a bank or island composed of a carbonate bedrock (limestone or coral reef).
Crews got the truck out of the sinkhole and towed it. Akron Water employee Rob Brunson told a Beacon Journal photojournalist on the scene that a 12-inch water main break caused the sinkhole.