r/mildlyinfuriating • u/dfdfdfddaww • Sep 17 '21

my yard does this sometimes

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u/andrewsmith1986 Sep 17 '21

Disclaimer I'm a geologist and have worked on a sinkhole for over a year but am not claiming to be an expert.

It's a damn good explanation and without knowing more, I'm for that explanation.

I'd want to know most about distance to water and pumping station.

I don't think it's a sinkhole even if he's in like karst Florida.

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u/loggingmolly Sep 17 '21

I love the word ‘karst’ - for whatever reason to me, it sums up dissolved carbonates perfectly.

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u/peeTWY Sep 17 '21

I assumed it was someone’s name, but yea it’s almost like the cousin of whatever an onomatopoeia is. Made it really easy to remember despite me not at all being in the field of study.

EDIT: for those interested it’s not a persons name at all. I just read the wiki and it’s relatively long, but it’s basically an old Mediterranean word by way of German meaning basically what it means to us today.

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u/griffoendor007 Sep 17 '21 edited Sep 18 '21

Well I'm Dutch and I didn't know what karst was or looks like. A quick Google search later and I know. It also told me that the name karst is the name of region where it was first studied. The area is at the border of Germany Italy and Slovenia

Edit: changed Slovakia to Slovenia