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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]
Pollard was reported missing by a family member shortly before 1 a.m. Tuesday, Limani said at an earlier press conference Tuesday. Pollard was last seen around 5 p.m. Monday, Limani said.
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.
Police found Pollard's vehicle behind the Union Restaurant in Unity Township around 3 a.m. with her 5-year-old granddaughter safe inside, state police said. The sinkhole, which was nearly the size ...
But peering into one recently discovered sinkhole in the hilly outlying regions of southern China, one finds a lush forest down below with ancient towering trees. It's a place they call "tiankeng ...
“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.”
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics ' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 2,795 law enforcement agencies, the most of any state.