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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.

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What is the relasionship between carbon deoxied water limestone and sink holes?

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What are formed when limestone found in the Earth has been eaten away?

Caves and sinkholes are formed when limestone is dissolved by underground water, creating underground spaces. Karst topography, characterized by these features, is a landscape formed by the dissolution of soluble rocks like limestone.


A type of rainy landscape where sink holes and caverns are common?

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Swallow holes are formed when water gradually dissolves and erodes the underlying limestone or other soluble rock, creating underground cavities. As these cavities grow larger over time, the surface above can collapse, forming a depression or hole. Swallow holes are common features in karst landscapes.


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What is an examples of carbon sink?

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What forms when limestone found in the earth has been eaten away?

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Islands formed by limestone animal skeletons?

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Who is to blame for having sink holes in your above ground pool?

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Does Louisville have sink holes?

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How is a swallow hole formed?

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