Timeline for Why is the soil shrinking in my backyard?
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| May 19, 2014 at 0:56 | history | edited | J. Musser | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2012 at 2:54 | history | edited | J. Musser | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 21, 2011 at 11:24 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackGardening/status/149450212098850816 | ||
| Dec 21, 2011 at 3:59 | comment | added | Lisa | I'm thinking the same as Ed Staub. Probably your soil is settling following some kind of works (e.g. house just built) where the soil was messed around and/or replaced. It's natural for soil to settle by compacting against itself like this. A rather morbid example are sinking graves, caused by the soil not being compacted enough when filled (image). | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 2:37 | answer | added | J. Musser | timeline score: 8 | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 2:35 | comment | added | Ed Staub | Was your house just built? Are you on a steep hill? Do you live in South Dakota or Wyoming? | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 1:58 | comment | added | winwaed | I'm probably the most geological minded here, and I would echo yoda's comment. Not knowing anything else, water is probably implicated, but it could be too much, too little, or something completely different like mining or karst related subsidence, or decomposition, or compaction. | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 0:47 | comment | added | Lorem Ipsum | Where are you and what's your climate like? Has it been raining lately? Do you know of the ground geology in your area? Is there a water table underneath? Have there been any recent drillings for whatever reason in your city/town/area? Please update your question with more information. | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 0:42 | history | asked | Doug Jackson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
