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To: cogitator

Hmmmmmn.

Pothole seems a poor term: more related to holes in a formed surface like a road.

So, since a sinkhole is formed differently than a "rockhole" (if the rockhole is formed by erosion of solid rock by falling water, and a sinkhole is made by loose water-soaked soil falling down), then what would they term the world's largest sinkhole?

Couldn't also be a pothole I would say.


3 posted on 11/28/2006 8:35:04 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

The more standard sinkhole definition is a hole formed by surface collapse into a subsurface void caused by subsurface erosion. Most commonly referred to in karst terrain, where the erosion is chemical, but can also happen mechanically.


4 posted on 11/28/2006 8:39:34 AM PST by cogitator
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