Two years ago, scientists in Southwestern China discovered life was teaming inside a gigantic sinkhole, situated in the Leye-Fengshan Global Geopark i

Huge ancient forest world discovered 630ft down sinkhole in China

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2024-11-23 15:00:04

Two years ago, scientists in Southwestern China discovered life was teaming inside a gigantic sinkhole, situated in the Leye-Fengshan Global Geopark in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the country.

The depression, which forms part of the UNESCO site, was proclaimed by Zhang Yuanhai, a senior engineer with the Institute of Karst Geology, to stretch over 1,000 feet in length, 490 feet in width and to be almost 630 feet in depth.

Yuanhai also explained the site had ‘a well-preserved primitive forest at the bottom’ and three cave entrances inside of it.

Speaking about the findings, UNESCO claimed: “The UNESCO Global Geopark is primarily sedimentary with more than 60 percent of 3000m thick Devonian to Permian carbonate rocks.

“It forms an 'S'-shaped structure and a rhombus configuration in the karst areas of Leye and Fengshan counties respectively, which controlled two large subterranean rivers’ development, the Bailang and Poyue.”

It’s said that the Buliuhe River was formed between the two bodies of water and that various ‘karst geosites’ were also created.