Well.... dip.
From a meta standpoint, a cock-up and disaster of that magnitude probably shouldn't be blamed on one person.
I don't think there's any natural historical precedent for blasting a quarter-mile with hole through a pressuriesed aquifer. (The size of the cut ring depending on how deep down it is.) It'd be interesting to see
Most of Ireland has a similar geology - mothe West especially with the burren especially being obvious where the topsoil has just been blasted off. The result could be something of a massive inland Turlough, that floods and empties with the changing level and pressure of water in the aquifer. One other effect that can happen is, if it does rapidly erode a riverbed, is the river can drain back down into the limestone or bore its own swallowhole right down and vanish. A small scale version of that happened here too, when someone built a canal in a limestone area, flooded the canal, and was promptly embarrassed when it all drained down into the limestone bedrock.
All that water's got to go somewhere, and will keep going there.
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From a meta standpoint, a cock-up and disaster of that magnitude probably shouldn't be blamed on one person.
I don't think there's any natural historical precedent for blasting a quarter-mile with hole through a pressuriesed aquifer. (The size of the cut ring depending on how deep down it is.) It'd be interesting to see
Most of Ireland has a similar geology - mothe West especially with the burren especially being obvious where the topsoil has just been blasted off. The result could be something of a massive inland Turlough, that floods and empties with the changing level and pressure of water in the aquifer. One other effect that can happen is, if it does rapidly erode a riverbed, is the river can drain back down into the limestone or bore its own swallowhole right down and vanish. A small scale version of that happened here too, when someone built a canal in a limestone area, flooded the canal, and was promptly embarrassed when it all drained down into the limestone bedrock.
All that water's got to go somewhere, and will keep going there.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?