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A massive sink hole stretching 100 feet opened up in an Illinois park on Wednesday, swallowing a light pole in the middle of recreational fields and leaving a gaping, deep hole in its wake.
The crustacean is endemic to the Illinois Sinkhole Plain of Monroe County and St. Clair County, in southwestern Illinois, including Illinois Caverns State Natural Area. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Historically Gammarus acherondytes was known from six caves, but in a survey in 1995 the species was found at only three of the sites, with one further site ...
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) is the code department [1] [2] of the Illinois state government that operates the state parks and state recreation areas, enforces the fishing and game laws of Illinois, regulates Illinois coal mines and other extractive industries, operates the Illinois State Museum system, and oversees scientific research into the soil, water, and mineral ...
The Illinois Bureau of the Budget projects that the population could increase to about 910,000 people by 2020. [ citation needed ] An estimated 100,000,000 US gallons (380,000 kL) per day of groundwater is pumped from the aquifer to supply municipal, agricultural, commercial, industrial, and rural domestic users (Larson et al., 2003).
A sinkhole and water main break in a parking lot Sunday has created an unsafe situation for nearly 20 townhomes in Patton Township. On Sunday evening, a sinkhole opened up in the parking lot for ...
A soccer field in Illinois situated above a mine has been closed after a giant sinkhole swallowed the ground up, leaving a gaping 100-foot-wide crater in the middle of a community park ...
The earliest Carboniferous rocks sit conformably on top of the youngest Devonian in Illinois; Carboniferous rocks in the state are areally extensive, regionally very well-exposed, and form a large percentage of the state's bedrock. Illinois remained marine for much of the Carboniferous, with limestones making up most of the rock deposited ...
The Illinois State Museum identified the ancient bone to be a prehistoric Stag-Moose (Cervalces scotti) antler, [5] which is the first record of a stag-moose in Minnesota. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Shortly thereafter, Chris Widga was examining the discovery site of the antler when he discovered the skull to an ancient saber-tooth cat ( Homotherium serum ...