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You might be a sinkhole if...

Nov 1, 2022, 10:58 AM
As a professor of physical science, Dr. Rob Martin wears many hats--marine biologist, environmentalist, geologist, media-savvy communicator of scientific fact...

The appearance of a hole in a Middleburg yard had the home's resident concerned, but when more started appearing and growing--and in light of the Tampa-area sinkhole that claimed the life of man who lay in his bed--this Middleburg  woman's concern started growing too. First Coast News Reporter Sade Malloy sought out the expertise of  FSCJ Professor Rob Martin, Ph.D. , wearing his geologist hat, to learn a little more about the nature of sinkholes. (NOTE: Dr. Martin does not rule out that what the resident is witnessing in her yard could be a sinkhole, although the linear arrangement is less characteristic of those phenomena than a more circular depression or hole.) First Coast News, March 7, 2013, 11 p.m.