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The Xiaozhai Tiankeng has been well known to local people since ancient times. Xiaozhai is the name of an abandoned village nearby and literally means "little village", and "Tiankeng" means Heavenly Pit, a unique regional name for sinkholes in China. A 2,800-step staircase has been constructed in order to facilitate tourism. [2]
More than 100 metres (328ft) beneath them is a lost world of ancient forests, plants and animals. ... a leading sinkhole researcher based in China. “Sinkholes are paradises for many rare and ...
On May 6, 2022, [2] scientist Yuanhai Zhang and Lixin Chen, founder of the Guangxi 702 Cave Expedition Club, led the expedition in Leye County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, South China. [3] [4] Chen led the descent into the sinkhole, the expedition team used the single-rope technique to descend a vertical cliff into the sinkhole. Not long ...
Shaanxi tiankeng cluster is a group of 19 karst sinkholes in Shaanxi Province, China. The discovery was made in February 2016 and announced by geologists on November 24, 2016. [1] Located within a 200 km-long karst landform belt in the southwest part of the province near Hanzhong City, the cluster is one of the largest on Earth. [2]
But peering into one recently discovered sinkhole in the hilly outlying regions of southern China, one finds a lush forest down below with ancient towering trees. It's a place they call "tiankeng ...
The Red Lake sinkhole in Croatia. A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. The term is sometimes used to refer to doline, enclosed depressions that are also known as shakeholes, and to openings where surface water enters into underground passages known as ponor, swallow hole or swallet.
China's giant sinkholes are a tourist hit - but ancient forests inside are at risk "You're so brave! You chose to break free," wrote one follower, while another urged her to "live the rest of your ...
One of the caves. The Longyou Caves (Chinese: 龙游石窟), also called the Xiaonanhai Stone Chambers (Chinese: 小南海石室), are a group of 24 artificial sandstone caverns located at Fenghuang Hill, near the village of Shiyan Beicun on the Qu River in Longyou County, Quzhou prefecture, Zhejiang province, China. [1]