#tiankeng — Public Fediverse posts

#BBCNews - #China 's giant #sinkholes are a tourist hit - but ancient forests inside are at risk
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8697gqwyx6o
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#China is home to around 200 #tiankeng, which are mostly distributed from the central #Shaanxi province down to the #GuangxiZhuang autonomous region in the southwest. Roughly 1/3 of the country consists of #karst — the highest proportion of overall surface area of any country in the world — compared with just under 1/5 in the United States.

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/chinas-heavenly-pits-the-giant-sinkholes-that-have-ancient-forests-growing-within

#geological #sinkholes #AsianMastodon #Earth #AmazingPlanet #nature #Geology #Asia #EarthSciences #AncientForests #ecological

#China is home to around 200 #tiankeng, which are mostly distributed from the central #Shaanxi province down to the #GuangxiZhuang autonomous region in the southwest. Roughly 1/3 of the country consists of #karst — the highest proportion of overall surface area of any country in the world — compared with just under 1/5 in the United States.

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/chinas-heavenly-pits-the-giant-sinkholes-that-have-ancient-forests-growing-within

#geological #sinkholes #AsianMastodon #Earth #AmazingPlanet #nature #Geology #Asia #EarthSciences #AncientForests #ecological

#China is home to around 200 #tiankeng, which are mostly distributed from the central #Shaanxi province down to the #GuangxiZhuang autonomous region in the southwest. Roughly 1/3 of the country consists of #karst — the highest proportion of overall surface area of any country in the world — compared with just under 1/5 in the United States.

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/chinas-heavenly-pits-the-giant-sinkholes-that-have-ancient-forests-growing-within

#geological #sinkholes #AsianMastodon #Earth #AmazingPlanet #nature #Geology #Asia #EarthSciences #AncientForests #ecological

#China is home to around 200 #tiankeng, which are mostly distributed from the central #Shaanxi province down to the #GuangxiZhuang autonomous region in the southwest. Roughly 1/3 of the country consists of #karst — the highest proportion of overall surface area of any country in the world — compared with just under 1/5 in the United States.

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/chinas-heavenly-pits-the-giant-sinkholes-that-have-ancient-forests-growing-within

#geological #sinkholes #AsianMastodon #Earth #AmazingPlanet #nature #Geology #Asia #EarthSciences #AncientForests #ecological