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Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2093-2026
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2093-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
Data description article
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23 Mar 2026
Data description article |  | 23 Mar 2026

Spatial and morphometric analysis of a comprehensive dataset of loess sinkholes from a small basin in the Chinese Loess Plateau

Sheng Hu, Francisco Gutiérrez, Fanyu Zhang, Sisi Li, Ninglian Wang, Xi-an Li, Xingang Wang, Jinhui Sun, and Songbai Wu

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On Chinese Loess Plateau, rain sneaks through cracks, hollows underground tunnels and suddenly collapses the roof, carving house-sized sinkholes. Airborne and handheld laser scanner now map 1194 of these sinkholes in one basin, showing they have quietly swallowed 345 000 t of soil. The open dataset gives the world its first high-resolution case study for mapping and managing loess sinkholes, proving that this soil-piping process deserves urgent attention, not neglect.
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