{"id":16586,"date":"2014-07-06T09:30:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T13:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=16586"},"modified":"2014-07-06T09:26:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T13:26:46","slug":"the-science-and-silliness-of-sinkholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2014\/07\/06\/the-science-and-silliness-of-sinkholes\/","title":{"rendered":"The science – and silliness – of sinkholes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This 1977 photo is described as “Dead sea ecological disaster – Sinkholes”<\/p><\/div>\n

Every so often some new sinkhole makes the news. <\/span><\/p>\n

This week the local hole worth knowing about opened up in West Quebec and\u00a0<\/span>closed Highway 148 between Luskville and Quyon<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

That got me poking around the Internet on the subject of sinkholes in general.<\/p>\n

Here’s a graphic<\/a> from Canadian Geographic on how they form. That page included links to a few notorious sinkholes, like the one that shallowed cars at the National Corvette Museum<\/a>.The Corvette Museum reportedly plans to keep their sinkhole<\/a>, apparently it’s become a big draw.<\/p>\n

Then there’s the big gulp of this watery sinkhole that just sort of eats trees.<\/p>\n