Posted on 09/24/2010 7:37:44 PM PDT by TaraP
There was a whole lake that disappeared. But it was in the US and it was circa 1980.
It was Lake Peigneur in Louisiana. Eleven barges, and a 150 FOOT TALL drilling rig disappeared into a lake 10 FOOT deep.
Here is an informative video of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddlrGkeOzsI&NR=1
karst..that’s all I remember from my college geology class...it was karst
Yes. It says so in the article.
"Ig, 23 September (STA) - The Environment Agency confirmed on Thursday that parts of the river Iska south of Ljubljana have disappeared as a result of damages to the river bed caused by heavy rain during the weekend."
"Some residents said they noticed that the lake, after being swelled by torrential rains weeks earlier, began falling last weekend. The Englishes said they noticed the drop-off Monday. By Wednesday, the manmade lake — normally seven to 10 feet deep in spots — had been reduced to a mucky, stinky mess. David Taylor, a geologist who inspected the lakebed Wednesday, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the sinkhole was formed when water eroded the limestone deep underground and created pockets in the rock. The sinkhole was “like a ticking time bomb.”
All I have to say to you is try a little common sense. do you have a brain? can you read english and comprehend? read my post again then watch the vid again. If you can’t figure out what I meant, ask me a specific question and I will answer it.
A herd of fish? Fish know better than to say that. They’re smart because they travel in schools.
I’d bet it was Chris Angel foolin’ around again.
"But one elderly villager sitting outside her house had another kind of force in mind. "I thought the Americans had got here," she said, laughing."
Well, we have been pumping a lot. But where's it gonna go? It can't leave the Earth without a spaceship. Most all of it returns to the ground. Some is broken up in to hydrogen and oxygen and the hydrogen escapes into space while much of the oxygen is turned into ozone. But the Earth is constantly pelted with ICE from space (and dirt/rocks). The balance goes in favor of more water and dirt added to the Earth each day. The Earth is, and has always been, growing in size. As more material is added to the 'outside', the inside 'expands'. This is what causes the so called 'continental drift'.
LOL... Well I know very little of fishing and it’s lingo!
Sorry, this was a lake in Russia for sure.
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=41228
But water, and gravity, have done this act since the beginning of Earth.
A large tub with no drain will overflow, sooner or later.
There is a creek near my boyhood home that flows for several miles through the valleys of southern middle Tennessee then disappears into the ground and reappears a few hundred yards later.
All you river are belong to us...
I find them all fascinating, and if you get time, the video on Lake Peigneur is very interesting because it involves a sinkhole caused by a drilling rig.
This is one of my most favorite geological disasters.
THE DOOR TO HELL - the site of a former natural gas drilling rig IN RUSSIA where the ground caved in and left a giant pit that has been burning from the escaping natural gas for the past TWENTY YEARS.
Maybe in post #2 up at the top of the page?
>> This is one of my most favorite geological disasters. THE DOOR TO HELL
Never heard Gore or any other AGW fanatic mention it.
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