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NR-1 Sinkhole – an underwater sinkhole first located by the NR-1 submarine; located southwest of Key West, Florida; Peter Sinks – a natural sinkhole in northern Utah, one of the coldest places in the contiguous United States; Pipe Creek Sinkhole – near Swayzee in Grant County, Indiana, important paleontological site
List of sinkholes in the United States; 0–9. 2014 National Corvette Museum sinkhole; B. Bayou Corne sinkhole; Bering Sinkhole; Big Basin Prairie Preserve; Blue Hole ...
Peter Sinks is a natural sinkhole in northern Utah that is one of the coldest places in the contiguous United States.. Peter Sinks is located 8,100 feet (2,500 m) above sea level, in the Bear River Mountains about 20 mi (32 km) east of Logan, within the Wasatch-Cache National Forest.
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.
Sinkholes of the United States (1 C, 26 P) Pages in category "Sinkholes of North America" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
The Bayou Corne sinkhole (French: Doline de Bayou Corne) was created from a collapsed underground salt dome cavern operated by Texas Brine Company and owned by Occidental Petroleum. The sinkhole , located near the community of Bayou Corne in northern Assumption Parish , Louisiana , was discovered on August 3, 2012, and 350 nearby residents were ...
The Devil's Kitchen Sinkhole is a sinkhole near Sedona, Arizona on the Soldier Pass Trail in the Coconino National Forest. Formed in the late 1880s, It is one of the at least seven sinkholes surrounding the city. [3] The sinkhole is about 660 ft (200 m) deep, but enters a cave that adds 180 ft (55 m), for a total of 840 ft (260 m). [2]
Sinkhole accidents in US history. Alabama claims to have had the largest relatively recent sinkhole collapse in the country, according to the USGS. The so-called "Golly Hole" in Shelby County ...