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Buraco das Araras – one of the largest quartzitic caves located in Goiás.Considered one of the largest sinkholes (dolinas) in the world; Gruta do Centenário – a cave located in Mariana, Minas Gerais, the largest and deepest quartzite cave in the world, and second in the country in terms of unevenness
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]
Largest sinkhole in sandstone, 314 m (1,030 ft) deep, with vertical walls. Unique, isolated forest on bottom. In the western part of Cerro Duida, Venezuela, there is a complex of canyons with sinkholes. Deepest sinkhole is 450 m (1,480 ft) deep (from lowest rim within canyon); total depth 950 m (3,120 ft).
That same sinkhole reopened for a third time last year, and was 19 feet wide at its largest point. Firefighters measure a sinkhole that swallowed a vehicle in front of a high school in Ventura ...
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]
The sinkholes range in size from 300 to 600 feet across. ... Scientists have said they know more about the surface of Mars than they do about the bottom of the largest fresh surface water system ...
These sprawling sapphire sinkholes often extend hundreds of feet down and can measure an equal or greater distance across as well. ... Zillow just released the biggest home trends buyers want in ...
Grassy Cove is North America's largest sinkhole. Sinkhole dimensions: [6] Watershed Area: 33.1770 km 2 (12.8097 sq mi) Watershed Perimeter: 42.1524 km (26.1923 mi) Sinkhole Area: 13.3112 km 2 (5.1395 sq mi) Sinkhole Perimeter: 35.7192 km (22.1949 mi) Sinkhole Depth: 39.97 m (131.1 ft) Sinkhole Volume: 37,736,946 m 3 (1.3326677 × 10 9 cu ft)