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What is a sinkhole?

Far from being just a hole in the ground, a sinkhole is a very special type of phenomenon Born of the interaction between water and rock, sinkholes appear anywhere rock dissolves easily. Some sinkholes happen gradually, the ground inside them slowly sinking over hundreds of years. Other sinkholes open up almost instantly. These are the ones you hear about in the news—the sinkholes that swallow houses and chew holes in highways.

Though sinkholes exhibit several different characteristics, all sinkholes provide a cool, damp environment that supports different plants and animals from those in the habitats surrounding them. From the crystal-clear springs of Florida to the oases of the Arabian Desert, sinkholes create their own unique natural communities. This book presents the full spectrum of sinkholes: Where do they happen? How do they happen? How do they affect us? While Florida seems to have more than its fair share of sinkholes, sinkholes happen worldwide—from valleys in the high Himalayan Mountains to the depths of the Adriatic Sea. Sinkholes are the basis for many strange and unusual landscapes, such as the gumdrop-shaped mountains of Jamaica and the towering, rounded mountains of Guilian, China. With many colorful photos, this book illustrates how sinkholes are an important part of our natural environment, though they’re often taken for granted.

Curious explorers will appreciate the suggested parks, preserves, and forests in which they can visit sinkholes, as well as a listing of additional resources for researching this fascinating geological phenomenon. An extensive glossary helps simplify the terms used throughout the book..
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 "Sinkholes and Subsidence"  provides a twenty-first century account of how the various subsidence features in carbonate and evaporite rocks cause problems in development and construction in our living environment. The authors explain the processes by which different types of sinkholes develop and mature in karst terrains. They consider the various methods used in site investigations, both direct and indirect, to locate the features associated with these hazards and risks, highlighting the value of hazard mapping. Various ground improvement techniques and the special types of foundation structures which deal with these problems are covered  in the second half of the text. This book is supplemented with a wealth of actual case studies and solutions, written by invited experts.

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Beginning over 10,000 years ago and continuing until the arrival of the Spanish in the 1500s, hunter and gatherer societies occupied the Edwards Plateau of central Texas. Archaeological studies over the past eighty years have reconstructed their subsistence, technology, and settlement patterns, but until now little information has been available on their burial practices, due to the scarcity of known burial sites. This detailed archaeological report describes the human skeletal remains, burial furnishings, and fauna recovered from Bering Sinkhole in Kerr County, the first carefully excavated hunter-gatherer burial site in central Texas. The remains in Bering Sinkhole were deposited from 7,500 to 2,000 years ago. Leland Bement's analysis reveals a growing elaboration in burial rituals during the period and also uncovers important data on the diet and health of the hunter-gatherers. He discusses climate change based on faunal remains and compares burial goods such as bone, antler, freshwater shell, marine shell, turtle, and stone artifacts with those found at other Texas mortuary sites and with deposits at hunter-gatherer habitation sites in Central Texas..
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The 66 papers presented in "Geotechnical Special Publication No. 122" contain the Proceedings of the Ninth Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst, co-sponsored by the Geo-Institute, National Groundwater Association, and P.E. LaMoreaux and Associates, Inc. Karst terrain presents unique engineering and environmental problems. The top rock is highly irregular and the rock itself is often riddled with voids, creating unreliable foundation conditions. Precipitation drains down the rock rather than running off over the surface and erodes the surficial sediments downward, causing sinkhole collapse and ground settlement. Groundwater moves rapidly through dissolved drainage channels in the rock resulting in a turbulent flow, which allows pollutants to be transported great distances very quickly. Traditional groundwater quality monitoring systems as required by many regulations are inapplicable in karst terrains and may fail to detect contaminants. The unique set of problems requires new and innovative techniques developed by engineers and scientists from all over North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. They have contributed their expertise to this conference: the world's leading forum on new developments and cutting-edge technologies for avoiding and solving these problems in karst. The conference was held September 6 through 10, 2003, in Huntsville, Alabama, USA..
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