Published in Scientific Papers. Series E. Land Reclamation, Earth Observation & Surveying, Environmental Engineering, Vol. IV
Written by Tahsin TAPUR
Sinkholes, one of the carstic geographical formations, come into existence as meltable rocks underground, such aslimestone create holes in time and as ceilings of those holes collapse. Sinkhole formations have occurred withconvenient lithological and ground water effect in Konya area for a long time. Dry or wet, there are almost 100sinkholes in Konya, which they are called as sinkholes. As a result of overuse of groundwater in the district of Konya,existence of sinkhole has been increased recently. Since appearances of aforementioned sinkholes are located inagriculture land has been carried issues because those aforementioned sinkholes are covered unproperly and used as afarm area by property owners. The covered process is extremely dangerous and it sometimes causes the sinkhole areato collapse again. In this study, it is aimed to discuss some sample of aforementioned sinkholes in the agriculture landsin Konya.
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