Snap, Crackle, Pop

Frozen rice fields in Sichuan province were swallowed up by a massive sinkhole Tuesday, with farmland collapsing into a pit ten metres across in the province’s Weiyuan county.

The cave-in occurred around 7pm on February 5, with an explosive sound heard by villagers 100 metres away, which some compared to the sound of firecrackers.

No one was reported to have been killed or injured, according to China News Service, but villagers will have to deal with the gaping holes in the middle of their land, while authorities monitor the area for further geologic instability.

OK Mr Geologist or Geophysicist, explain to me how that much matter can dissappear that quickly all in one place?  It would take a crew of construction workers a day or to to mobilize, excavate and remove that much material.  I do not see a water pipe under there we can blame it on.  I don’t see an abandoned mine shaft. I don’t see a LARGE MOLE.  They will most likely have flooding in that area in a few months.

Karst topography is a geological formation shaped by the dissolution of a layer or layers of soluble bedrock, usually carbonate rock such as limestoneor dolomite,^[1] but has also been documented for weathering-resistant rocks, such as quartzite, given the right conditions.^[2]

Due to subterranean drainage, there may be very limited surface water with no rivers or lakes. Many karst regions display distinctive surface features, with cenotes, sinkholes or dolines being the most common. However, distinctive karst surface features may be completely absent where the soluble rock is mantled, such as by glacial debris, or confined by one or more superimposed non-soluble rock strata. Some karst regions include thousands ofcaves, although evidence of caves large enough for human exploration is not a required characteristic of karst.

Bla,Bla, Bla, Bla Bla.  Truth is, the largest geological formations on this planet are formed in a similar matter, some very quickly.  Sort of like that “munching” sound Mae heard in Florida right before her house and that Porsche dealership passed into the next dimension. We are being geo-formed and bio-formed continuously by these particles.  BIG CME, MASSIVE ENERGETIC PARTICLES. BIG COMET, MASSIVE ENERGETIC PARTICLES.  It would actually be pretty boring around here without these particles, we just need to WAKE UP and it will get even more exciting.

Godspeed.

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