This giant karst sinkhole, also called a tiankeng, has plants growing at the bottom in Luoquanyan Village of Xuan'en County, central China's Hubei Province. This is not the sinkhole discovered in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. (Image credit: Song Wen/Xinhua/Alamy Live News) A team of ...
Xinhua 2022-05-09 A cave exploration team has discovered a giant karst sinkhole in Leye County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, bringing Leye's number of such sinkholes to 30. Zhang Yuanhai, a senior engineer with the Institute of Karst Geology of China Geological Survey, ...
NANNING, May 7 (Xinhua) -- A cave exploration team has discovered a giant karst sinkhole in Leye County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, bringing Leye's number of such sinkholes to 30. Zhang Yuanhai, a senior engineer with the Institute of Karst Geology of China Geological...
Explorers and researchers are investigating a recently discovered sinkhole in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region to assess the flora and fauna preserved inside the massive pit. According to the Institute of Karst Geology at the China Geological Survey, researchers are closely observing the ...
Formation mechanism analysis of cover collapse sinkholes in Wugaishan Town, Chenzhou City, Hunan province, ChinaCover collapse sinkholeMine dewateringKarstGroundwater levelFormation mechanismThe ongoing growth of cover collapse sinkhole occurrences that concentrated in Wugaishan Town, Chenzhou City in ...
China's Xiaozhai Tiankeng is consideredthe deepest sinkhole in the world . More than 2 , 165 feet ( 660 m ) deep , this sinkhole could swallow a 200-story skyscraper. The Sarisarinama sinkholes in Venezuela were discovered in 1961 . Scientists have ...
[18,75] monitored the recurrent floods affecting karst depressions placed within the sub-humid and seasonally drought-prone Fengshan County (Guangxi) and Guangnan County (Yunnan), South China. Floods were found to last up to four months during the rainy season, in stark contrast with the ...