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Sinkholes, caves and caverns, disappearing streams, hummocky hills, and terra rosa ( residual red ) soils in the valleys are distinguishing features of a karst landscape ; all these are present in Jamaica.
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Sinkholes may be formed gradually or suddenly, and are found worldwide.
Sinkholes are common where the rock below the land surface is limestone or other carbonate rock, salt beds, or rocks that can naturally be dissolved by circulating ground water.
Sinkholes are usually but not always linked with karst landscapes.
Sinkholes that form in coral reefs and islands that collapse to enormous depths are known as Blue Holes, and often become popular diving spots.
Sinkholes, known locally as cenotes, are widespread in the northern lowlands.
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Sinkholes and gas leaks formed all around the city and the gas had to be slowly burned off.
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File: DeadSeaSinkhole. jpg | Sinkholes at Mineral Beach
Sinkholes have often been used as farmstead or community trash dumps.
Sinkholes can develop gradually as surface openings enlarge, but quite often progressive erosion is unseen and the roof of an underground cavern suddenly collapses.
Sinkholes may vary in size from both in diameter and depth, and vary in form from soil-lined bowls to bedrock-edged chasms.
Sinkholes near the Dead Sea, formed by dissolution of underground salt by incoming freshwater, as a result of a continuing sea level drop.
Sinkholes may capture surface drainage from running or standing water, but may also form in high and dry places in a certain location.
Sinkholes often form through the process of suffosion.
Sinkholes also form from human activity, such as the rare but still occasional collapse of abandoned mines in places like West Virginia, USA.
Sinkholes can be formed in retention ponds from large amounts of rain.
Sinkholes have been used for centuries as disposal sites for various forms of waste.
The River Mole flows nearby and indeed as its name suggests the river in places goes underground due to the chalk bed being dissolved in places forming Swallow holes or Sinkholes.
Sinkholes which were reported in Kampar and Ipoh for three days running have been investigated and determined not to be earthquake related.
Sinkholes appeared at the downstream toe of the dam, and muddy water was observed in the dam's outflow channel.
Sinkholes that feed the system can occur some distance away from the slope and need protection to ensure long term integrity of the site.
caves and caverns
Rivers, pools and springs abound in this verdant forest, as do underground water caves and caverns with a prehistoric past.
The caves are made up of a marble and limestone solution, for the most part, that forms the many cave decorations throughout the caverns.
Where Pandesmos has wide-open caverns, Agathion has narrow caves that eventually dwindle to pocket spaces within the infinite rock.
As " The Crushing Lands ", Malbolge was a place of craggy, black stone and ash filled with stinking vapors, smoke, fire pits, and huge caves and caverns in which ancient Baatorians lurked.
The caves and caverns of Grand Bahama contain an immense underwater cavern with a vast flooded labyrinth of caverns, caves and submerged tunnels that honeycomb the entire island of Grand Bahama and the surrounding sea bed.
Local residents knew about the caves by the 1930s when the first attempts to explore the caverns occurred.
He suggests that the spirit Luna may be useful to them, so the party travels across the world to the deserts of Freyland, the depths of the ancient dwarven caverns of the Morlia Gallery, and to mountains above and caves below in search of rings and spirits to help them fight Dhaos.
Preservation of the species requires both the preservation of land and sea, due to the need for terrestrial haul-out sites and caves or caverns for the animal to rest and reproduce.
The local terrain is hilly with patches of forest filled with sinkholes and many caves and caverns.
The caverns are named after Jack Mitchell, who owned and operated the caves from 1934 to 1954 as a tourist attraction and rest stop for travellers on neaby U. S. Route 66.
This category is for articles related to the geology of caves and caverns, and the formations found therein.
It is also known for its crystal clear rivers, and its caverns ( prehistoric caves called Guácaras ).
A Karst topography developed as groundwater circulated in the buried limestone formations, dissolving away caves and underground caverns which were later destroyed by infill and erosion.
The result is the bizarre allocation of Tytherion today: Tiamat rules the caves of Tytherion far beneath the skies and mountains she prefers, while Zehir rules the mountains above, far above the caverns and trenches his followers prefer.
Whether the authors intended for this to be a series of caves and caverns or a literal Hell ( or both ) is uncertain ; there are many entrances to the twelfth book throughout the first six.
There are a number of caves and caverns in Xilitla, as well as many natural springs which provide potable water.
As in Steading of the Hill Giant Chief, the bulk of this adventure takes place in two locations: an upper area consisting of caves and the rift floor, and a lower area consisting of natural caverns.
Grude is rich of natural beauties as well-from the numerous caves and caverns characteristic of this stone, the karst landscape through-which is unusual this area-a number of sources and water resources ( Lake Krenica, river Vrlika ).
The California Caverns, in Cave City, are a series of caverns that are one of the earliest officially recorded caves in the Mother Lode region of California.
Although one of numerous caves in the Mother Lode region, California Caverns claims the distinction of having the most extensive system of caverns and passageways.
caves and disappearing
The valley has been intensely karstified, as evidenced by the numerous sinkholes, springs, caves, and disappearing streams.
The valley has been intensely karstified, as evidenced by the numerous sinkholes, springs, caves, and disappearing streams.
Particularly near the Kentucky River, the region exhibits Karst topography, with sinkholes, caves, and disappearing streams that drain underground to the river.
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