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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]
The total explored depth of this sinkhole is approximately 530 metres (1,740 ft) with a volume of roughly 25–30 million cubic metres, [2] thus it is the third largest sinkhole in the world. [2] Water drains out of the basin through underground waterways that descend below the level of the lake floor.
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
OceanGate co-founder is planning a trip to one of the world's deepest ocean sinkholes. ... Dean's Blue Hole is the third-deepest blue hole in the world, with a depth of 663 feet.
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 ...
The Red Lake sinkhole in Croatia. A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. The term is sometimes used to refer to doline, enclosed depressions that are also known as shakeholes, and to openings where surface water enters into underground passages known as ponor, swallow hole or swallet.
A 30-foot-deep sinkhole formed along an Oregon coastline inches away from one that appeared months earlier, park officials said. The second sinkhole, which is 10 feet wide, appeared Monday, May 8 ...
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]