THE NEGATIVE IMPACT OF SINKHOLES IN AGRICULTURE LAND: THE CASE OF KONYA

Sinkholes, one of the carstic geographical formations, come into existence as meltable rocks underground, such as limestone create holes in time and as ceilings of those holes collapse. Sinkhole formations have occurred with convenient lithological and ground water effect in Konya area for a long time. Dry or wet, there are almost 100 sinkholes 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 in agriculture land has been carried issues because those aforementioned sinkholes are covered unproperly and used as a farm area by property owners. The covered process is extremely dangerous and it sometimes causes the sinkhole area to collapse again. In this study, it is aimed to discuss some sample of aforementioned sinkholes in the agriculture lands in Konya.