The Xiaozhai Tiankeng stands as the textbook example of what happens when karst processes are given perfect working ...

Fengjie County, in the Chongqing Municipality, is where you'll find Xiaozhai Tiankeng, the world's largest and deepest ...

But one thing is for certain: measuring 660m deep, with a volume of 130 million cubic metres, China's Xiaoxhai Tiankeng is both the deepest and largest sinkhole in the world. Video: The world's ...

MailOnline Travel has scoured the globe for eye-popping images of the ... inky black cavities takes in the world's largest sinkhole - Xiaozhai Tiankeng, or Heavenly Pit - a monster in China ...

The Xiaozhai Tiankeng sinkhole is vast. Probably formed centuries ago by collapsing caves and underground rivers, teams of explorers have sought to understand its many mysteries for years.

Despite being hundreds of meters deep, the Xiaozhai Tiankeng sinkhole was not discovered until 1994, when a group of British explorers with the Royal Geographic Society stumbled upon it.

First discovered by specialists in 1994, the world’s deepest sinkhole can be found in Fengjie County, Chongqing Municipality, China. Xiaozhai Tiankeng, or the Xiaozhai Heavenly Pit, measures ...

The find brought the number of known tiankeng in Leye to 30, according to the Xinhua news agency. The bottom of the sinkhole harbored a primal forest with ancient trees that were up to 131 feet ...