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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. Some are caused by karst processes—for example, the chemical dissolution of carbonate rocks [1] or suffosion processes. [2]
The name derives from a word used by the lowland Yucatec Maya—tsʼonoʼot—to refer to any location with accessible groundwater. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In Mexico the Yucatán Peninsula alone has an estimated 10,000 cenotes, [ 4 ] water-filled sinkholes naturally formed by the collapse of limestone, and located across the peninsula.
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.
The Dead Sea is disappearing at an alarming rate, leaving behind thousands of sinkholes that are chipping away at the coastline's vibrant and touristy atmosphere. The Dead Sea - which is actually ...
Three counties in Florida's Tampa area make up a region sometimes called "sinkhole alley" because of the over 20,000 sinkholes there, almost 75% of the sinkholes in the whole state, according to ...
Playa de Gulpiyuri is a flooded sinkhole [1] with an inland beach located near Llanes, in Asturias Northern Spain, around 100 m from the Cantabrian Sea. [2] It is the shortest beach in the world. [ citation needed ]
Disastrous floods have been reported throughout the history of Valencia, from the 14th century up to the contemporary period. [5] The 1957 Valencia flood was caused by a three-day cold drop (Spanish: gota fría) (which usually leads to heavy autumn rains in Spain and France); it overflowed the banks of the Túria river and devastated the city of Valencia.
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.