Sentence examples for sinkhole form from inspiring English sources

WHY did the sinkhole form?

Mayan word for a sinkhole formed when fresh water dissolves limestone below the surface and the overlying rocks collapse.

[Daily News] A huge sinkhole formed on West 82nd Street on Wednesday, two weeks after a water-main break flooded the block.

A20 Floods Close Interstate High temperatures, runoff from melting snow, and thunderstorms have caused raging floods in Colorado forcing officials to close Interstate 70 when a sinkhole formed under it.

3. Building, mining, piling etc in prone areas can alter the loading, drainage and groundwater regime, thus increasing the likelihood of a sinkhole forming, or possibly speeding the process up.

The site is 8-m-thick Middle Paleolithic sequence (OSL dated to 170 80 ka) that is located in a karst sinkhole formed by gravitational deformation and sagging into underground voids.

For real-life examples, this lesson offers a wealth of useful contextual information and some jaw-dropping footage, including a Chinese pavement opening up and swallowing a woman and a sinkhole forming in Louisiana and making trees disappear – get students to discuss which they found most shocking, and why.

A sinkhole formed around the uncased annulus.

Later on the same day, a sinkhole formed around the drilling site.

When a large sinkhole formed unexpectedly at Bayou Corne in August 2012, swallowing land and prompting hundreds of local residents to leave for good, they went back and analysed radar scans taken in the area before the collapse.

Days later, a sinkhole formed near the bridge, prompting authorities to close the bridge for repairs.