Page 1 of 2

SINK HOLES

PostPosted: 16 Feb 2014, 07:58
by KateLMead
Imagine stepping outside your door and disappearing down a sink hole :o :o Can someone explain how they come about,
It makes the mind boggle.

Re: SINK HOLES

PostPosted: 16 Feb 2014, 08:22
by Rodo
Well I think it's the excess water draining into the ground over a long period that just washes away the subsoils. Something like that anyway.

Re: SINK HOLES

PostPosted: 16 Feb 2014, 08:40
by KateLMead
Just imagine stepping outside your front door and disappearing down a hole Rodo!!!! :shock: "don't know what my friend just over for coffee is laughing at"

wishful thinking ? :shock:

Re: SINK HOLES

PostPosted: 16 Feb 2014, 12:16
by Workingman
It's the beginning of The Nothing, it is I tell you. Believe me, it is closing in...... :o

Re: SINK HOLES

PostPosted: 16 Feb 2014, 12:45
by Rodo
Australia here we come.

Re: SINK HOLES

PostPosted: 16 Feb 2014, 12:54
by Kaz
:lol: Rodo that would be a bonus :P ;) :lol:

Re: SINK HOLES

PostPosted: 16 Feb 2014, 12:57
by Rodo
We would be illegal immigrants though! :(

Re: SINK HOLES

PostPosted: 16 Feb 2014, 15:21
by pederito1
One possible explanation is that they can occur in made up ground. In time the fill compacts leaving a void and when the earth above becomes too saturated to support itself it collapses. There must be a void for a sink hole to occur.

Re: SINK HOLES

PostPosted: 16 Feb 2014, 16:53
by KateLMead
Frightening, one opened up on the motorway. This is what nightmares are made of :o

Re: SINK HOLES

PostPosted: 16 Feb 2014, 18:23
by Workingman
Rodo wrote:We would be illegal immigrants though! :(

Well, if the Aussie authorities didn't get you The Nothing would, and, as Ped explained, you would be sucked into the void. If you were to run it would become a never ending story of trying to avoid the void. :o ;) :P