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- The Kola Superdeep Borehole (Russian: кольская сверхглубокая скважина, Kolskaya sverkhglubokaya skvazhina) is the result of a scientific drilling project of the Soviet Union in the Pechengsky District, on the Kola Peninsula. The project attempted to drill as deep as possible into the Earth's crust.
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Big Hole Kimberley Mine shaft. The Big Hole, Open Mine, Kimberley Mine or Tim Kuilmine (Afrikaans: Groot Gat) is an open-pit and underground mine in Kimberley, South Africa, and claimed to be the largest hole excavated by hand, although this claim is disputed.
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The largest drain hole in the world Located in northern California, the Monticello Dam’s is the largest morning glory spillway all over the world. This funnel-shaped outlet, allows water to bypass the dam when it reaches capacity, as it swallows a rate of 48,400 cubic feet per second (1370 m³/s).
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World's 'biggest sinkhole' baffles scientists sparking rumour of crashed UFO site A mysterious gigantic sinkhole has appeared in Russia - and nobody knows where it came from or how deep it is. It opened up in the peninsula of Yamal, a place which locals call the 'end of the world'. At 80 metres wide, the sinkhole is believed to be the biggest ever spotted in the country and could be one of the deepest ever recorded in the world. Speculation of what has caused the phenomenon include rumours of a crashed UFO, a meteorite hitting the earth, global warming or a sinkhole caused by collapsing rock.
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What's At The Bottom Of The Deepest Hole On Earth? Remove this rusted metal cap and the world’s deepest hole tunnels miles into the Earth. However, we know more about certain distant galaxies than we do about what lies miles beneath our very own feet. For that reason, Soviet scientists in the 1970s decided to probe deeper than humanity has ever done before.
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The deepest holes in the world Kimberley Mine (The Big Hole) Kimberley, South Africa. At a depth of more than 700 feet and a width of 1,519 feet, it’s hard to believe The Big Hole started as a hill. More than 6,000 pounds of diamonds were unearthed from this site, and at one point, up to 50,000 miners had their picks in the earth.
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- Most galaxies, and maybe all of them, harbor such a black hole. So in our region of the Universe, there are some 100 billion supermassive black holes. The nearest one resides in the center of our Milky Way galaxy, 28 thousand lightyears away. The most distant we know of lives in a quasar galaxy billions of lightyears away.
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CPD Home Acquisition Relocation Affordable Housing Budget/Allocations More HUD Home HOME funds are awarded annually as formula grants to participating jurisdictions (PJs).The program’s flexibility allows States and local governments to use HOME funds for grants, direct loans, loan guarantees or other forms of credit enhancements, or rental assistance or security deposits.
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Top 10 Amazing Holes In The Earth Top 10 Amazing Holes In The Earth. In man’s search for mineral wealth, many enormous holes have been dug. In addition, nature occasionally produces some astounding holes. This list is a pick of the ten most spectacular natural or manmade holes in the face of the earth. Many thanks to rushfan for sending in the images for this list. Click the images for a larger view. Chuquicamata is an open pit copper mine in Chile.
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- Top 10 facts about the world. The deepest hole ever drilled is the Kola Superdeep Borehole, on the Kola peninsula in the northwest corner of Russia, located near Finland. It was drilled for scientific research by the USSR.
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10 Totally Bizarre Holes In The Earth The cave has been declared the largest in the world, and it wasn’t easy to explore. It was created between two and five million years ago, carved from the limestone by an underground river. In some places, the erosion reached so close to the surface that parts of the cave roof collapsed to form more holes.
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Shaking hands with the Devil â The deepest hole ever drilled Although the original plan was for the hole to be drilled to 15,000 meters (49,000 ft), the project was unable to proceed due to the temperatures encountered. In recent years a few longer boreholes have been drilled, but the Kola Superdeep Borehole still holds the record for the deepest artificial point on earth.
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Huge Holes in the Earth: Open-Pit Mines Seen From Space Huge Holes in the Earth: Open-Pit Mines Seen From Space. People have become significant earth movers, outpacing all sources of natural erosion. More and more of our footprint can be seen from space in many forms, including cities, reservoirs, agriculture and deforestation. Among the most impressive human scars on the planet are open-pit mines.
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Top 10 Amazing Holes In The Earth 10 World’s Biggest and Most Amazing Holes. Chuquicamata is an open pit copper mine in Chile. It is the mine with the largest total production of copper in the world – though it is not the largest copper mine. The mine is over 850 meters deep.
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- Because that is the opening to the world’s deepest cave. That shallow-looking opening is the tip of the iceberg that is larger than many of earth’s tallest manmade structure put together. Krubera Cave stretches more than 7,208 feet (2197m) toward the earth’s core.
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- › Full image and caption. Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world's ocean, surrounds a huge, feeding black hole, called a quasar, more than 12 billion light-years away.
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Largest Ever Water Reservoir Discovered in Space Largest Ever Water Reservoir Discovered in Space. Astronomers have found a massive water vapor cloud floating around a black hole in the universe, marking it the largest discovery of water anywhere. The reservoir is gigantic, holding 140 trillion times the mass of water in the Earth's oceans, and resides 10 billion light years away.
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Blue hole The deepest blue hole in the world at 987 feet (300.89 meters) deep is in the South China Sea and is named the Dragon Hole, or Longdong. The 2nd deepest blue hole in the world with underwater entrance at 202 metres (663 ft) is Dean's Blue Hole, located in a bay west of Clarence Town on Long Island, Bahamas.
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Massive Hole Discovered Under Antarctica, Bigger Than The Grand Canyon Massive Hole Discovered Under Antarctica, Bigger Than The Grand Canyon. A giant valley deeper than the Grand Canyon is buried beneath several miles of glacial ice in West Antarctica, according to a new study by British scientists. The sub-glacial canyon is nearly two miles deep, 200 miles long and 15 miles wide.
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Beneath this Metal Cap is the World's Deepest Hole (The distance to the center of the earth is around 3,950 miles, but the continental crust is a mere 22 miles thick.) The most intriguing discovery made by the Kola Superdeep Borehole researchers was the detection of microscopic plankton fossils four miles beneath the surface of the earth.
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Lipids Waxes are a class of lipids that contain two monomers, one fatty acid bonded through an ester linkage to one alcohol (a hydrocarbon containing a hydroxyl group). The hydrocarbon chain in the alcohol monomer of waxes varies from a short linear chain to complex carbon ring structures.
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Ask Smithsonian: Whatâs the Deepest Hole Ever Dug? The oil and gas industry also claims some deep holes, on land and offshore. BP’s Deepwater Horizon holds the offshore record. The drilling rig—lost in an explosion in 2010— managed to get some 30,000 feet below the sea, or about 5 miles.
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Follow BBC Earth We've even been to the Moon. But we've never been to the planet's core. We haven't even come close. The central point of the Earth is over 6,000km down, and even the outermost part of the core is nearly 3,000 km below our feet. The deepest hole we've ever created on the surface is the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia, and it only goes down a pitiful 12.3 km.
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Black Hole of Calcutta The Black Hole of Calcutta, 20 June 1756. The Black Hole of Calcutta was a small dungeon in Fort William in Calcutta, India where troops of Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, held British prisoners of war after the Bengali army captured the fort on 20 June 1756.
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The deepest holes in the world Dubbed the Door to Hell, it sits above natural gas deposits in the Karakum Desert near Derweze, Turkmenistan. The hole is 230 feet wide and 66 feet deep and has been boiling continuously since Soviet geologists first ignited it while drilling for gas. Watch out for the rest of the deepest holes in the world.
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Ten Worlds Largest Sinkholes - The Door to Hell The sinkhole is about 80 meters (m) long, 40 m wide and 200 m deep. This hole may not be the biggest or deepest, but is globally important because 10% of the world output of potash comes from this area, and the sinkhole threatens production from this critical source.