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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 ]
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.
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.
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 ...
Pollard's 5-year-old granddaughter found safe in car near sinkhole Police found Pollard's vehicle behind the Union Restaurant in Unity Township around 3 a.m. with her 5-year-old granddaughter safe ...
The days-long search for a Pennsylvania grandmother, who fell through a sinkhole while searching for her cat, ended in tragedy when rescuers found the woman's body, authorities said Friday. The ...
A remarkable topographic feature found in Xuan'en County is a 290-meter deep karst sinkhole, located near the village of Luoquanyan (锣圈岩 村). According to news reports, the sinkhole, which occupies around 100 mu (6 hectares), has its own unique ecosystem.