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What causes caves, caverns, and sinkholes
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What forms when limestone found in the earth has been eaten away?
Dissolution features such as dolines and sink holes as well as caves are common when limestone wihin the earth is dissolved.
A place where many caves are connected by passages?
It's called a cave system. They are quite common. There are even more systems that are connected hydrologically although with no humanly-passable links. Wookey Hole, at the foot of the Mendip Hills in SW England is one such example. It discharges the River Axe whose tributaries are several major caves on the hills above it; and despite efforts over many decades and continuing, no-one has yet found a cavers' route from the sink caves to the resurgence; nor between the feeder caves.
Where did the word sinkhole originate?
It is a middle English compound word combining sink and hole. A sink hole is a hole in which things sink.
How do caves grow?
In limestone caves (the vast majority) the development of a passage continues as long as there is a stream flowing through it to dissolve the rock away. Once the stream ceases, the passage becomes "fossil" or "abandoned", no longer grows and in time will tend to break up as percolation water enlarges the rock's joints above the roof. The stream ceases when either the catchment has been lowered sufficiently by erosion to remove it and its sink into the cave; or the cave has developed a lower level now taking the water. The latter is often but not automatically associated with surface-topography changes lowering the altitude of the rising (spring) from which the cave's water resurges.
Where and when did the Wahine sink?
barret reef is where the wahine sunk
A type of rainy landscape where sink holes and caverns are common?
It is called a karst landscape.
How many major sink holes in Georgia?
Is Georgia proneto sink holes
What are formed when limestone found in the Earth has been eaten away?
Dissolution features such as dolines and sink holes as well as caves are common when limestone wihin the earth is dissolved.
What forms when limestone found in the earth has been eaten away?
Dissolution features such as dolines and sink holes as well as caves are common when limestone wihin the earth is dissolved.
Are sink holes constuctive?
sink holes are destuctive because it is breaking down the earth surface
How does carbonic acid cause sink holes?
Carbonic acid dissolves limestone by turning the mostly insoluble calcium carbonate into soluble calcium bicarbonate. The dissolution hollows out areas the the rock, creating caves. When one of these caves collapses a sinkhole will form above.
How are sink holes formed in a limestone region?
As water flows through a limestone, some of the rock dissolves. This process can lead to the formation of cavities and caves. If a cave becomes too large and unstable to support the overbearing rock, it will collapse, leaving a sink hole at the surface.
Who is to blame for having sink holes in your above ground pool?
the people who put the pool there and didn't check for sink holes
Where are the camuy caves?
Camuy Puerto Rico on the southwestern part of the Island, minutes from the Arecibo radio telescope known as the Arecibo observatory controlled and ran by Cornell University. This section of the island is rich in limestone formations with many sink holes and caves. The Camuy caves are famous for their beauty and the presence of the Camuy River flowing through the cave.
Does Louisville have sink holes?
yes
What are swallow holes?
I believe you mean sink holes. They are areas where underground cavities collapse, pulling in the ground above them and anything on the surface. Many sinkholes are the result of cavities that are filled with water being emptied. Without the water pressure supporting the walls and ceiling of the cavity, it caves in on itself,
Will an object with holes bob up and down in the water or will it sink if it floated before you put holes in it?
It depends on the boyancy of the material and the location of the holes. A ship holed below the waterline will sink. A body board with holes in will float.
