Sentence examples for chalk mine from inspiring English sources

Created by extending an existing chalk mine, the caves feature a series of 'rooms', including an Entrance Hall, Circle, Franklin's Cave (named after Benjamin Franklin, Banqueting Halll, Triangle and Miner's Cave, a subterranean river (The Styx) and the Inner Temple.

It may sound crazy, but even if you chalk mine and everyone else's performance issues up to some weird too-many-app bug, you still have the battery issue to consider.

Chalk mines were accessed by a vertical shaft which creates dangerous conditions for sinkholes.

But the added complication is the historic practice of chalk mining.

Several sinkholes in Norwich have been caused by old chalk mines intercepting otherwise stable sediment-filled voids.

Chislehurst is known for its "caves," which are 18th- and 19th-century chalk mines said to date originally from Roman times.

Chalk mines typically consisted of a shaft or pit that fell straight down and then spread below in a series of small mines.

Photograph: Christian Fevrier/bluegreenpic Facebook Twitter Pinterest Updated at 1.12pm GMT 12.47pm GMT Surveyors Geoinvestigate said recent sinkholes in High Wycombe and Hemel Hempstead were likely a result of natural fissures in the rock or historic chalk mines, which would not have been recorded.

In the early 20th Century, the area in the eastern Graubünden canton that now makes up Swiss National Park was denuded and degraded by centuries of logging, as well as iron and chalk mining.

The area around the village features ancient deneholes, or agricultural chalk mines, some of which are pre-Roman.

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