Post by Logan on Jul 3, 2016 12:29:50 GMT -6
They say everything’s bigger in Texas: monster trucks, beef ribs and … sinkholes?
Lots of sinkholes have been popping up around Texas recently. A garbage truck fell into a sinkhole in Austin earlier this month. A giant sinkhole in Daisetta in 2008 swallowed a tractor and storage tanks.
The town of Wink has two large sinkholes – one from the 1980s and another that opened up on 2002. The first sinkhole is about the size of a football field and the other is over double the size. But residents don’t seem to be too worried about them, even though they’re growing. Residents just ask that you refrain from ogling them up close. Now a new study from Southern Methodist University found the two could converge into one massive hole.
Dr. Don Van Nieuvenhuise, director of the Petroleum Geosciences Programs at the University of Houston, says the sinkholes are both a natural occurrence and a man-made one.
Read more: www.texasstandard.org/stories/winks-sinkholes-are-growing-and-its-the-pits/