The Devil's Kitchen Sinkhole is one of seven recent sinkholes in the Verde Valley near Sedona, Arizona. According to Paul Lindberg, the sinkholes occur due to local subsidence into buried paleokarst caverns of the Pennsylvanian Redwall Limestone.
Online resource: Lindberg, P.A., 2010, Geologic Report of the Devils Kitchen sinkhole, Sedona, Arizona: Arizona Geological Survey Contributed Report CR-10-B, 19 p. http://repository.azgs.az.gov/uri_gin/azgs/dlio/429
