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swallow hole
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swallow hole
n
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) Chiefly Brit another word for sinkhole [1]
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Noun1.swallow hole - a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roofswallow hole - a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
sinkhole, sink
natural depression, depression - a sunken or depressed geological formation
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swallow hole n (Geol) → inghiottitoio
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Along parts of the River Alyn the bed is dry where water drains away down swallow holes on the bed and banks.
Sewage escapes into river Alyn bed by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
When discharge exceeds the capacity of the fractures to divert the water, the flow over the waterfall is directed into the overflow channel 3 at the north end of the gulf where it is then diverted underground through a series of swallow holes (Fig.
Wesley Chapel Gulf revisited: geomorphic processes affecting ... by Guy, Danise / Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
 
 
 
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