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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 literally 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]
Two-thirds of the world’s more than 300 sinkholes are in China, scattered throughout the country’s west - with 30 known tiankeng, Guangxi province in the south has more of of them than ...
Blue Hole (Red Sea) – a submarine sinkhole around 94 m (308 feet) deep in east Sinai, a few kilometres north of Dahab, Egypt on the coast of the Red Sea. Dead Sea sinkholes; Dean's Blue Hole – the world's second deepest known salt water blue hole with an entrance below the sea level; in the Bahamas
Shaanxi tiankeng cluster, in the Daba Mountains of southern Shaanxi, China, covers an area of nearly 5019 square kilometers [64] with the largest sinkhole being 520 meters in diameter and 320 meters deep. [65] Teiq Sinkhole (Taiq, Teeq, Tayq) in Oman is one of the largest sinkholes in the world by volume: 90,000,000 m 3 (3.2 × 10 9 cu ft).
A huge sinkhole measuring larger than a tennis court suddenly opened up near a copper mining operation in Chile, swallowing large chunks of soil, and investigators are trying to figure out what ...
This latest sinkhole formed within the safety fence for the first sinkhole, which was located about 10 inches away from the new opening, officials said. This sinkhole is 10 feet wide and 30 feet ...
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]
Sinkholes filled with water, also known as blue holes, completely surround the island nation of The Bahamas, and now OceanGate’s co-founder wants to explore the deepest of them all.