Expert: Guatemalan disaster not a sinkhole

[Judi Lynn]

Expert: Guatemalan disaster not a sinkhole
by Staff Writers
Guatemala City (UPI) Jun 3, 2010

A Guatemalan geologist said the massive hole that opened up beneath Guatemala City's downtown is not a sinkhole but instead a "piping feature."
Geologist Sam Bonis said a sinkhole is defined as an area where bedrock has been eaten away by groundwater and the 100-foot deep, 66-foot wide hole that opened up during the weekend in the capital does not qualify, Discovery News reported.

He said the hole is instead a "piping feature" resulting from the pumice fill, ash flows from ancient volcanic eruptions, beneath the city. Bonis said the ash is 600 feet thick in some places.

Bonis said he and other experts were called in when a similar hole opened up just a few blocks away from the current site in 2007.

More:
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Expert_Guatemalan_disaster_not_a_sinkhole_999.html

[dipsydoodle]

1. Whatever the cause

it was a spooky sight wasn't it. I can quite believe their conclusion. Weird shit pummice - it was through that that the early Christians dug their secret burial catacombs outside Rome and they went down 4 or 5 stories underground. Worth a visit if you're ever in Italy. Similarly that was how they discovered Pompei almost intact - it had been buried under the stuff for 2000 years.

:hi:

[xchrom]

2. Whatever it was - that was a Freaky hole. Nt

[Orsino]

3. Neither Satan nor BP seems to be responsible.

But BP would say that, wouldn't they?

[fasttense]

4. Using Satan and BP in the same sentence is rather redundant.

After all BP is our most current manifestation of evil thanks to their careless, negligent and illegal conduct, destroying a huge part of our country while just trying to make a buck, or more likely a billion bucks.

Because corporations from Wall Street banksters to outsourced IT monopolies, are absolutely wonderful. :sarcasm: