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The Tiankeng formed over the Difeng cave, which in turn had been formed by a powerful underground river which still flows underneath the sinkhole. The underground river starts in the Tianjin fissure gorge and reaches a vertical cliff above the Migong River, forming a 46-metre-high (151-foot) waterfall. The length of this underground river is ...
Its depth and width must measure at least 100m for it to qualify as a sinkhole. Some, like the one found in Guangxi in 2022, are much bigger, stretching 300m into the earth and 150m wide ...
Explorers found a large area of wild plantain (Heliconia) species at the bottom, as well as square bamboos (Chimonobambusa quadrangularis) [8] with thorns 2 cm to 3 cm long growing around its joints. [9] An unidentified species of eagle was also found inside the sinkhole, living in a family, after which the tiankeng was named. [3]
The team was made up of China's resource authorities as well as experts from the UNESCO International Research Center on Karst, the International Union of Speleology, as well as other research bodies of the Czech Republic (the Czech Speleological Society and the Institute of Geology of the Czech Academy of Sciences), China (the Institute of ...
“My worst fear is for it to overtake us at night,” one resident told a news outlet. “So that’s the reason we haven’t really been able to sleep.”
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