How To Use Sinkhole In A Sentence
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Topographic and geological maps are the next stop to identify likely areas based on physical features such as sinkholes, known outcrops of cave forming rocks, and known cave locations.
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Springs, sinkholes, and caves are just a few examples of the types of karst features commonly found in the limestone and dolomite geology of this region.
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And let's not forget that News Corp. has shown itself to be eminently fallible in the online realm: This is the company that spent $580 million to buy the social-networking sinkhole known as MySpace.
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The unstable ground underneath his feet suddenly gave way, and he fell into a deep sinkhole.
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For the next two weeks, the fully autonomous robot, which bears an uncanny resemblance to a Volkswagen Beetle, will plumb the previously inaccessible microbial mysteries of the sinkhole -- or "cenote" -- El Zacatón.
NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: May 2007 Archives
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Karst is an area of irregular limestone in which erosion has produced fissures, sinkholes, underground streams, and caverns.
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As for the other religious terms, 2 are Nahuatl: teocalli ` temple 'and teopan ` temple grounds'; 2 are Quechua: huaca or guaca ` an ancient Peruvian sacred object, such as a mountain, animal, shrine, or artifact, inhabited by a god or spirit 'and huaco or guaco ` a pre-Columbian relic of Peru,' as an object discovered in a tomb; and one is Mayan: cenote ` a natural well or sinkhole into which sacrificial offerings were thrown during ceremonies. '
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Then one day your showboating will catch up with you and you'll eventfully fall into a sinkhole and break both your legs.
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In one early scene in the book he is dangling in a harness fifty feet above the water level of an overgrown limestone cenote, or sinkhole, deep in the jungle of the Dominican Republic.
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Subsidence sinkholes are diagnostic landforms of karst, which form in unconsolidated soils or drift deposits overlying cavernous limestone.
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They also blame what they call unscrupulous public adjusters, who earn commissions helping consumers obtain insurance payments, saying they have aggressively filed sinkhole claims in the absence of a major hurricane since 2005 to provide business.
Plugging a Gap in Sinkhole Coverage
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IPOH: The Ipoh City Council (MBI) will undertake a study to come up with remedial measures to assist owners of houses located in areas threatened by sinkholes, Ipoh mayor Datuk Roshidi Hashim said today.
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Chiang Stumps Even Her Teacher, the reporter for The Christian Science Monitor listed indehiscence (a botanical term for the state of being closed at maturity), maunder (to move slowly and uncertainly), and cenote (a sinkhole) among a list of eight difficult words she had used, saying that even Wellesley professors had to consult their dictionaries.
The Last Empress
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They were marching steadily across the marshy northlands, their pace slowed by the necessity of watching their feet for sinkholes and mud puddles.
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Calderon also straps on scuba tanks to lead Greenberg into a sinkhole lake known as a cenote in Yucatan.
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They need to go out in the middle of a sinkhole area and try to find the confining layer - to see if it covers a truly broad area - but they don't do that.
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It has the advantage of avoiding being unsuspiciously linked to cesspools and sinkholes.
Keep cool.
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From the cryoconite holes, the surface water drains through a network of much larger sinkholes and crevasses on the ice sheet.
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The wells at Chichén Itzá are actually large limestone sinkholes - known in Spanish as cenotes (underground pools) - and they are one of the singular aspects of the site.
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They were marching steadily across the marshy northlands, their pace slowed by the necessity of watching their feet for sinkholes and mud puddles.
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Its lower crestal elevations, Alfisol soils, limestone bedrock, and sinkholes distinguish it from Ecoregion 70d; its ruggedness, lack of fragipans, and, often, natural vegetation differentiate it from the glaciated plains of Ecoregion 55d.
Ecoregions of Indiana and Ohio (EPA)
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The sinkhole or cenote is one of several located in the same area, though recent studies have failed to demonstrate any obvious underground connections between them.
Did you know? Mexico has the deepest water-filled sinkhole in the world, in Tamaulipas.
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The trip passes by waterfalls, forests, canyons, valleys, sinkholes and caves.
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The enclosed depressions are complex forms of dolines or sinkholes, which act as centripetal drainage basins.
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Even sinkholes similar to the one last summer have been around since the 18th Century.
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This is the process by which rainwater erodes limestone cliffs and creates limestone caves and sinkholes.
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The near-miss knocked the lizard and her rider off the cliff-side, sending both plunging into the sinkhole grotto.
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A tiny snail, a relict from the last great ice age, finds its home on a cool, rocky slope near the coldwater streams, cliffs, valleys, and sinkholes that make up the Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa.
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This is the process by which rainwater erodes limestone cliffs and creates limestone caves and sinkholes.
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Without a working budget, or a viable rescue plan, the organization continued its disastrous descent into the financial sinkhole.
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Just to the west of Mount Schank, an extinct volcano created a series of deep sinkholes, which harbour some unusual life forms.
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* Once this water enters the dolomite which overlays the area, it could also detrimentally affect its aquiferous capacity and have significant environmental consequences, such as the development of sinkholes.
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You can kayak, mountain-bike, dive in a reef or cenote (a water-filled limestone sinkhole unique to the Yucatan Peninsula), or enjoy snorkeling and scuba diving, golfing and tennis, trekking, birdwatching, and deep-sea fishing.
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CARLSBAD - Is there a potential for a sinkhole to occur inside the city limits of Carlsbad?
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At this point we were getting a little bit discouraged by the many long hikes we had taken into the jungle without finding "droppable" sinkhole features.
Search for the Maya Underworld - Day Seven
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The trip passes by waterfalls, forests, canyons, valleys, sinkholes and caves.
