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What is a sinkhole?
Sinkholes are depressions or holes in the land surface that occur when underlying rocks dissolve. They are common in areas where the rocks below the land surface can naturally be dissolved by ground water circulating through them such as limestone, carbonate rock or salt beds. As rain falls through the atmosphere, it absorbs carbon dioxide an...
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After Guatemala, now a sinkhole in China
After the Sinkhole in Guatemala, now sinking land has created an enormous hole in front of an elementary school and swallowed an entire playground in Ningxiang county in China's Hunan province. The sinkhole started to yield in mid-January, at first forming a hole twenty meters in diameter. Intense springtime rainfall has since accelerated the ...
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Gaping Guatemala sinkhole could grow, prompts evacuation
A massive sinkhole that gulped down a clothing factory and an entire intersection in Guatemala's capital is mystifying geologists who have yet to figure out what caused it.
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Sinkhole swallows houses in Guatemala
The hole is 66 feet (20 metres) across and plunges nearly 100 feet (30 metres) deep.
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What is a sinkhole?
Sinkholes are depressions or holes in the land surface that occur when underlying rocks dissolve. They are common in areas where the rocks below the land surface can naturally be dissolved by ground water circulating through them such as limestone, carbonate rock or salt beds. As rain falls through the atmosphere, it absorbs carbon dioxide an...
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After Guatemala, now a sinkhole in China
After the Sinkhole in Guatemala, now sinking land has created an enormous hole in front of an elementary school and swallowed an entire playground in Ningxiang county in China's Hunan province. The sinkhole started to yield in mid-January, at first forming a hole twenty meters in diameter. Intense springtime rainfall has since accelerated the ...
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Gaping Guatemala sinkhole could grow, prompts evacuation
A massive sinkhole that gulped down a clothing factory and an entire intersection in Guatemala's capital is mystifying geologists who have yet to figure out what caused it.
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Sinkhole swallows houses in Guatemala
The hole is 66 feet (20 metres) across and plunges nearly 100 feet (30 metres) deep.
