“Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take the step.” ~ Unknown
sink hole
If you’ve never seen a sink hole, consider yourself in the know now. The Bluegrass region of Kentucky has an interesting topography of karst. Karst is “landscape underlain by limestone which has been eroded by dissolution, producing ridges, towers, fissures, sinkholes and other characteristic landforms.” One of the things that make McConnell Springs so interesting to me, besides the fact that it’s where Lexington was founded and now sits in the middle of an industrial section of town, is that the spring that bubbles up from the blue hole travels only a short distance before disappearing into a sinkhole, then reappearing a short distance away before disappearing into another sinkhole. This sinkhole in fact. It’s called The Final Sink, and the spring flows underground for a third of a mile before reappearing again. Cool, huh? Karst does cool things. You can learn more about McConnell Springs from this link. If you’re interested in learning more about karst in Kentucky, here ya go.
No responses yet