Something just didnt see right here EarthCache
Something just didnt see right here
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I was out this past weekend in Otter Creek, in some of the more remote unused areas of the park and something just didnt seem right here. I stopped and looked around for a minute and sure enough something just wasn't right. Be aware the the vegetation may make this area look different from one season to the next.
Karst topography is a landscape shaped by the dissolution of a layer or layers of soluble bedrock, usually carbonate rock such as limestone or dolomite.
A karst landscape has springs, sinking streams, caves, and sinkholes. Kentucky is one of the most famous karst areas of the world. Much of the state's beautiful scenery, particularly the horse farms of the Bluegrass, results from the development of karst landscape.
Karst underlies regions of major economic importance to the state. Many of Kentucky's cities, including Louisville, are partly or entirely underlain by karst.
Ninety-two of Kentucky's 120 counties contain at least some areas of karst. About 40 percent of the state is underlain by rocks with the potential for at least some karst development, and 20 percent of the state has well-developed karst features.
The karst terrains of Kentucky are mostly on limestone and formed over hundreds of thousands of years. As water moves underground, from hilltops toward a stream through tiny fractures in the limestone bedrock, the rock is slowly dissolved away by weak acids found naturally in rain and soil water.
A sinkhole, also known as a sink, shake hole, swallow hole, swallet, doline or cenote, is a natural depression or hole in the surface topography caused by the removal of soil or bedrock, often both, by water. Sinkholes may vary in size from less than a meter to several hundred meters both in diameter and depth, and vary in form from soil-lined bowls to bedrock-edged chasms. They may be formed gradually or suddenly, and are found worldwide.
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3. Diameter of these features?
4. Do they apprear to be getting larger? please expalin why?
5. Have they been there fore a while? please explian why?
6. How are these formations created?
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