[FONT="]"Sure, it looks a lot like a sinkhole," geologist Sam Bonis told Discovery News from his home in [/FONT][FONT="]Guatemala[/FONT][FONT="]. "And a whale looks a lot like a fish, but calling it one would be very misleading."[/FONT]
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[FONT="]Instead, Bonis prefers the term "piping feature" -- a decidedly less sexy label for the 100-foot deep, 66-foot wide circular chasm. But it's an important distinction, he maintains, because "sinkholes" refer to areas where bedrock is solid but has been eaten away by groundwater, forming
a geological Swiss cheese whose contours are nearly impossible to predict.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]The situation beneath the country's capital is far different, and more dangerous... [/FONT]
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