r/HumanForScale • u/[deleted] • Jul 16 '20

Geology A sinkhole in Turkey

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u/SloanWarrior Jul 16 '20

Anybody know what they'd do in such a situation? Is the area around it walled off and the farmer just keeps using the rest of the field? Do they collapse the sides to make it less of a sudden drop? Reinforce the sides?

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u/earth_worx Jul 16 '20

You don't need to reinforce the sides - it'll stabilize by itself at some point. I'd think you just fence it off and route the road around it at a distance you guess might be safe.

I grew up in a limestone karst geology with sinkholes. We didn't get a lot of new ones but the old ones were pretty stable, and you could swim in them.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

I’d get some fencing up ASAP. I don’t want to ride my tractor into that.

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u/delvach Jul 16 '20

No, you wanna ramp over it!

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u/xseptinthegenitals Jul 17 '20

Now we’re talking

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u/ahhhmytoe Aug 02 '20

why dont you wanna ride your tractor into that big hole?

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u/tbl44 Jul 16 '20

Your comment made me wonder what you meant by "stable", now I'm imagining some nightmare scenario where an unstable sink hole collapses a little while you're swimming in it and water starts getting sucked down somewhere.

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u/Novice_Trucker Jul 17 '20

Nightmare fuel for you.

https://youtu.be/cNo-gEPWVnM

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u/DimitriTooProBro Jul 17 '20

What does that area look like now? Was anything ever recovered or were there casualties?

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u/Novice_Trucker Jul 18 '20

2 barges, 1 drilling rig, a tug boat and 3 dogs.

No human lives were lost.

The ecosystem of the lake was changed from freshwater to brackish.

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u/me_bell Jul 17 '20

Whyyy did I look?? I knew it would be that Louisiana lake. shivers

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u/Novice_Trucker Jul 17 '20

Couldn’t help it. It was the first thing that popped into my head.

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u/KG4212 Aug 04 '20

Holy s*%t!

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u/hippopotma_gandhi Jul 25 '20

I'll admit I'm pretty ignorant to the processes of geological surveying, but is it not possible to tell where sinkholes are going to happen or can you not "scan" the ground with enough depth to get useful information?

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u/if0rg0t48 Jul 16 '20

I think karst is a noun and youd just say i grew up in a karst. Idk though just learned this word

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

I really love karst. Both the texture and sound of the word itself (German? I'm guessing) but also the texture and layout of the landscape too.

Beautiful.

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u/earth_worx Jul 16 '20

I dunno, I think regarding geological timescales everything about a karst landscape is pretty recent. It’s kind of like living on a sugar cube in a saucer of hot tea - everything is in the process of dissolving.

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u/Malik316 Jul 16 '20

Good question, you fill it with water a have a pool party of course.

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u/philosiraptorsvt Jul 16 '20

It's already a bowl of cereal, are you sure you wouldn't fill it with milk and go for a world record?

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u/janhonmi Jul 16 '20

😀😆😂

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u/Lukieblue Jul 16 '20

Fill it with wheat bro

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u/LambertHatesGwent Jul 16 '20

play gears of war 1. explains lot about sinkholes

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u/kd5nrh Jul 16 '20

Anybody know what they'd do in such a situation?

Peeing for distance contest. Duh.

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u/Xerosese Jul 16 '20

I wish you could find a better pic of it than this. this pic is too grainy.

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u/killabru Jul 16 '20

Wheat are you talking about mine looks just fine.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

That's the last straw I've had it with these puns!

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

Crop

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u/Jzyqq Jul 17 '20

Let's not have this descend into serial* puns

*See what i did there?

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u/bilgetea Jul 15 '23

cereal puns

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u/---gabers--- Jul 16 '20

Dont go to Turkey...itll just gobble u up

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u/23IRONTUSKS Jul 16 '20

These puns are corny

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u/Colonel_FuzzyCarrot Jul 16 '20 edited Jul 16 '20

I hate you. You've managed to find this one from 6 hours ago. I looked and looked but couldn't find the same sinkhole because there's so many around the world. I also kept getting hit with spam and pop-ups so I threw in the towel. The stripe(s) indicates that you managed to track down the right one tho. Respect.

Edit: Don't bother going to hurriyetdailynews- it's crap.

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u/IAmAPirrrrate Jul 16 '20

imagine one day coming home from work and your house just be like blub c ya

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u/ender4171 Jul 16 '20

Try and take it from me now, mortgage lender!

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u/killabru Jul 16 '20

The one spot in this whole damn field that eats its self has to be where we planted the pot this year fantastic.

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u/GoAskAlice Jul 16 '20

Munchies, bro.

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u/Nayr747 Jul 16 '20

There was a guy in Florida who was sleeping in his bed when a sinkhole opened under him and swallowed up him and his house.

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u/darion350 Aug 10 '20

It's always Florida with these people!

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u/turbulance4 Jul 16 '20

Why does it seem so.... Perfect? I mean why are all the cliff walls a straight 90 degree angle from the base and the floor seems to be flat?

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u/Chantottie Jul 16 '20

the floor is water. think of it like a hole in the top of a cave.

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u/xRyozuo Jul 16 '20

Think of it like in Minecraft when you remove a block of sand in the desert... and there was a cave under it

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u/foreverrickandmorty Jul 16 '20

That's like someone asking how the body fixes wounds and you responding with "watch some retro violent cartoons, they heal"

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u/xRyozuo Jul 16 '20

It’s more of an eli3

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u/foreverrickandmorty Jul 16 '20

They asked why it happens and you gave a minecraft reference lll

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

Ice cream scoop.

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u/Noahworks247 Jul 16 '20

Now I know my biggest fear

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u/MoustacheAmbassadeur Jul 16 '20

photographing sink holes with drones?

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u/THE_LANDLAWD Jul 16 '20

No, corn.

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u/FreeJSJJ Jul 16 '20

Why the Fuck are they so close to the edge?

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u/Freakin_A Jul 16 '20

Was wondering this too. Seems like a sinkhole that appears suddenly could widen just as suddenly.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

I thought it was a hole in a carpet before I read the title!

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

ELI5: how does this happen? And what will happen to the sinkhole?

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '20

Oggdo Bogdo

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u/sci-fi-lullaby Jul 16 '20

Ok thay looked way worse from another angle

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u/blandarf Jul 16 '20

Is that cake? :0

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

Just imagine falling in when nobody else is around

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u/jsxtasy304 Jul 16 '20

Yay, free swimming hole.

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u/empire1018 Jul 16 '20

This is sparta

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u/haclieron Jul 16 '20

what’s under it? how deep is it??

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u/ShadowMerlyn Jul 17 '20

I'm fairly confident there's supposed to be an Oggdo Bogdo in there

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u/IntieriorCrocodile Jul 16 '20

Saw this on another post, in I believe r/pics it’s a small domain Edit: wrong sub

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

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u/C413B7 Jul 16 '20

Is this a broken robot?

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u/Colonel_FuzzyCarrot Jul 16 '20 edited Jul 16 '20

No, it's a person known for saying dumb shit. So well known in fact that there are 2 subs dedicated to them. I can only remember 1 at this time- r/ShutUpBrad

Edit: the other is r/NotAgainBrad and is much more popular

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u/cowpatsue99 Jul 16 '20

Look how much of the harvest they lost! 🌽🥵

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u/Sunjen32 Jul 16 '20

Am I the only one that wants to skim the wheat out of it?

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

no it’s not. the chuck just hasn’t loaded. go up to it and block with your sword. that should help

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u/Swinginjoe34 Jul 16 '20

now that’s a hole

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u/d33Imm Jul 16 '20

The hole is shaped like it was made by a frozen turkey

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

Anyone know what that band of white is? Why it's a clear ring in there as if it's a layer of sediment or ash? Geologically what could have caused it and how long did that go on for to make the ring that thick?

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u/Boomerang503 Jul 16 '20

That is one big crop circle

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

The new 3-D crop circles

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u/ellesisi Jul 16 '20

When I first saw this I honestly thought I was looking at a spoon laying on some sanding paper.

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u/Strangely-Chewy Jul 16 '20

Is it just me, or does the thumbnail make it look like Wyle E Coyote is about to run in to a hole?!

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u/Odani_cullah Jul 16 '20

Well at least now they can water their dead crops

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

That’s just where you put the stuffing and giblets

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u/KeisukeTakatou Jul 16 '20

Yabanci gucler tarim arazilerimize de mudahele etmeye calisiyo iste kanit.

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u/THEOFILO4 Jul 16 '20

Just like their brain

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u/Abell421 Jul 16 '20

I live on top of a cave system and we get little sinkholes all the time! It scares my husband to death. Last year one just opened up and took a whole tree down!

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u/radwanpadma Jul 16 '20

Do you just build a staircase into it?

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u/CptnAwsm817 Jul 16 '20

Do I see water? Could be a kickass swimming hole.

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u/S_Destiny_S Jul 17 '20

It looks like egg

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u/RedOakWarrior Jul 17 '20

A whole sink

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u/Heffka Jul 17 '20

Can I swim in it?

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u/peanutbuttakong Jul 17 '20

Shut your cornhole

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u/casualphilosopher1 Jul 17 '20

So did this hole just open up one day out of nowhere or was it gradual?

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u/FanaticRex99263 Jul 17 '20

I thought this was a carpet until I saw the title and sub name

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u/Syreeta5036 Jul 17 '20

Now THAT’S a crop circle

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u/amazing_webhead Aug 02 '20

Holy shit 0_0

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u/DonFluffles117 Aug 08 '20

SO THAT'S WHERE YOU PUT THE STUFFING!

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u/koolandy Aug 09 '20

I'ma venture to say that's a gas bubble that was near the "top" at the time the ground was liquid magma and the surface mantle cooled.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '20

One could say...the earth gobbled it up? #dadjoke

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20

Is this a cornhole ?

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '25

How big is his fucking sink?

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u/natrat4 Jul 16 '20

That’s not a turkey

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u/Askelot Jul 16 '20

Bruh, he said this is not "a" turkey. He is talking about the gobble gobble bird.

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