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The Xiaozhai Tiankeng has been well known to local people since ancient times. Xiaozhai is the name of an abandoned village nearby and 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]
The sinkhole was formed in karst terrain, which means rock below the surface can easily be dissolved by groundwater circulating through the bedrock. [5] The large hole measures over 1,000 feet in length, almost 500 feet wide and 630 feet deep, with a volume of over 176 million cubic feet. [ 6 ]
Shaanxi tiankeng cluster is a group of 19 karst sinkholes in Shaanxi Province, China. The discovery was made in February 2016 and announced by geologists on November 24, 2016. [1] Located within a 200 km-long karst landform belt in the southwest part of the province near Hanzhong City, the cluster is one of the largest on Earth. [2]
Pennsylvania − where a search has been launched for a missing grandmother who may have fallen into a sinkhole − is one of the states where the holes are most likely in the U.S.. Officials have ...
A year after the OceanGate submersible disaster, the company's co-founder is planning another excursion into the deep blue, this time into a "virtually unexplored" sinkhole.
Pages in category "Sinkholes of Europe" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
This massive sinkhole measuring 131 feet wide recently opened up about two miles away from a Russian mine. First, flooding stopped operations at the mine about a 1,000 miles east of Moscow.
The Great Blue Hole, a giant submarine sinkhole, near Ambergris Caye, Belize 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.