Did Storm Waters Create Cave Entrances on KY Man’s Property?

I attended Western Kentucky University and took quite a few geography classes. Geography was my minor. I'm still a proud geography nerd and always will be, but I don't and never will hold a candle to all of my wonderful professors who would get REALLY excited at the drop of any geographical event.

You can imagine their demeanor as professional educators right there in the heart of cave country. One of my instructors, Dr. Michael Trapasso, once showed us an aerial map that featured a good number of small sinkholes dotting the southern Kentucky landscape. These were the kind that stopped growing and before swallowing anything up like the one that formed under the National Corvette Museum a decade ago.

Kentucky Sinkholes

If you own land in this region, and there's a major weather event like the ones we've been experiencing, you might wind up with a geological surprise in your backyard. That's what one man who contributes to Kentucky Farm Life discovered.

I certainly hope the gentleman who shared these images will keep us updated in case, as he believes, this continues to grow and does, in fact, swallow up that pond.

What Is Karst?

The Kentucky Geological Survey informs us that the Commonwealth is one of the most well-known karst regions on the planet. Karst regions are defined by the heavy presence of limestone and dolomite. The dissolution of these materials is what leads to the formation of sinkholes. This KGS map illustrates Kentucky's karst regions. The dark blue indicates the heaviest presence of such minerals.

A big thank you to Kentucky Farm Life at Jadaway Farms for a little weather-related geological education.