The results suggest that previous visual interpretation method might significantly underestimate the number of potential sinkholes in the region.
To show the interest of the numerical developments in modelling reinforced earth structures, an application is provided for embankments, reinforced at their base by a geosynthetic and built on areas subject to potential sinkholes.
With an air of transparency, you and your team can point out potential sinkholes.
The most likely obstacles might be financial: At a time when France is raising taxes and freezing spending to meet budget targets, an open-ended commitment to a potential financial sinkhole would seem to be a risky proposition.
In this sense, hydrogeochemical modelling is being used for evaluating any artificial CO2 deep geological storage as a potential CO2 sinkhole and to assess the leakage processes that are usually associated with these engineered systems.
Our method holds great potential for creating and updating sinkhole inventory databases at a regional scale in a timely manner.
While work was under way on a potential Season 2 episode, involving a sinkhole at a construction site, the script called for a trauma doctor to tell a victim that "we're going to have to cut off your leg" just before the commercial break.
Instead, they got ancient sinkholes filled with ferns, potential death by cat.
He was, as Foxsports.com's Robert Lusetich wrote, a magnificent champion who cannot be faulted because his potential challengers spent Sunday falling into mental sinkholes and muttering to themselves.
Natural hazards such as landslides, floods, rockfalls, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, sinkholes, and snow avalanches represent potential risks to our infrastructures, properties, and lives.
