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Sinkholes and caverns are formed from carbolic acid. This carbolic acid dissolves rock which creates the spaces that form the sinkholes and caverns. The carbolic acid is created when carbon dioxide dissolves in water.
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Where do sinkholes come from?
Sinkholes comes from expansion of dissolution hollows formed from action of water on bottoms of limestone formations.
What the following can be caused by excessive pressure from overlying structures over a cavern?
sinkholes
What are some features formed by underground erosion and deposition?
cave formations and sinkholes
What are speleothems?
speleothems are cavern formations, that live and grow in types of caverns. some are, stalatite, stalagmatite, soda straw, flowstone, or drapery. there are many more but htese are the most famous...
How do humans adapt to sinkholes?
They don't. Sinkholes are filled in.
Where do sinkholes come from?
Sinkholes comes from expansion of dissolution hollows formed from action of water on bottoms of limestone formations.
Carbonic acid forms when carbon dioxide is absorbed into water The action of carbonic acid on may produce sinkholes caverns and formations like stalagmites?
Limestone
What formations form in pillars on the floor of a cavern?
Stalagmites
These formations form in pillars on the floor of a cavern.?
They are stalagmites.
What the following can be caused by excessive pressure from overlying structures over a cavern?
sinkholes
What are some features formed by underground erosion and deposition?
cave formations and sinkholes
These formations hang from the ceiling of a cavern like icicles?
Stalactites are stony formations that hang from the ceilings of caves.
Which of the following can be caused by excessive pressure from overlying structures over a cavern?
sinkholes
The action of carbonic acid on what may produce skinholes caverns and formations like stalagmites?
On limestone and gypsum (calcium carbonate and calcium sulphate, respectively). Oh, and I know you meant "sinkholes"!
What are in sinkholes in the the ocean?
an empty cavity or cavern due to drilling or possibly earthquake activity or volcanic activity
What geologic formations would probably be found along the boundary where two tectonic plates meet?
Faultlines, Volcanoes, or Sinkholes
What is formed when a cavern roof collapses.?
Sinkholes form typically as limestone dissolves. A caldera is created by the collapse of volcanic vault ceilings.
