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sinkhole

a depression in the ground in which water collects and disappears below the surface, e.g. in limestone areas where a cave roof has collapsed.
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Many researchers have followed a morphological approach, which mainly stressed morphological and morphometric criteria in delineating a tiankeng as a type of giant doline, and they distinguished collapse and erosional tiankengs as sub-types (Klimchouk 2005; Shui et al.
Research progress on karst tiankeng ecosystems
In the Passismanua area and part of the Lamogai Plateau, it forms a dissected karst plateau of massive coral-algal limestone with numerous dolines and saucer-shaped depressions resulting from doline collapse.
Diversity in lithic raw material sources on New Britain, Papua New Guinea
Meyer, 1852) from lacustrine sediments of the Oberleichtersbach doline (Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany) are reported.
Nuevos ejemplares del Oligoceno superior de los sedimentos lacustres de la dolina Oberleichtersbach (Baja Franconia, Baviera, Alemania)
The doline collapse in anhydritic-gypsiferous soils and rocks is a typical case of sulphate-based mineral dissolution conducing to ground loss and instabilities of existing structures.
Sobre el comporatmiento del sistema Ca-S[O.sub.4]-[H.sub.2]O
About 16,000 persons reside in this region, near approximately 300 Doline.
Evaluating nitrogen management of farm systems in the steep-mountainaous KARST region
Playwright and poet Lizzie Nunnery and novelist Gwen doline Riley will appear at the Everyman Bistro on Friday.
Festival is showing write stuff; 08 Days A Week
Bemused Doline and Donald Mackenzie got the card this week.
OUR XMAS CARD GOT LOST IN BERMUDA TRIANGLE; EXCLUSIVE 4000-mile detour on way to Scottish isle
This is justified by observed accumulation of gas in the doline over night.
A new instrument for remote sensing of thermal anomalies, based on minimal thermal change detection/Minimaalsete soojusmuutuste detekteerimisel pohinev uut tuupi instrument termiliste anomaaliate kaugmootmiseks
Pajki iz gornjega dela selske doline termofilni bukov gozd nad zalim logom, 650 m.
The spider genus Dysdera (Araneae, Dysderidae) in central Europe: revision and natural history
A core sample performed at the bottom of the temporary doline lake near the Cerca Grande outcrop revealed two discrete dark organic levels, the upper one at 50 cm depth, the lower at 210 cm.
Human occupation and paleoenvironments in South America: expanding the notion of an "Archaic Gap"
lezat' i rune v zemle syroj")--a time when "the sad tune over me / In the valley the wind will disperse" ("napev unylyj nado mnoj / V doline veter razneset").
Kozlov's translations of two English romantic poems (1)
At Ngarua, there are no cliffs so 5 transects encompassing a variety of slopes and aspects were taken at right angles to a line running down-slope between the cave containing the predator deposit and a doline on one side, and a doline and a low rise on the other side.
Soil indicators of pre-European seabird breeding in New Zealand at sites identified by predator deposits
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