{"id":1170,"date":"2015-04-10T08:14:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T12:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpstaging.whoi.edu\/site\/coastalgroup\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2022-01-14T13:53:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T17:53:24","slug":"hole-in-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/coastalgroup\/hole-in-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Hole in One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/coastalgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2021\/07\/hole-in-one1.jpg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/coastalgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2021\/07\/hole-in-one1.jpg\" alt=\"Hole\" height=\"474\" width=\"700\" title=\"hole-in-one1\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<p>WHOI geologist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/coastal-group\/\">Jeff Donnelly<\/a>\u00a0and research assistant Richard Sullivan recently joined Texas A&amp;M University at Galveston (TAMUG) geologist Pete van Hengstum and undergraduate student Tyler Winkler in collecting\u00a0cores from Thatchpoint Bluehole. It is thought that blueholes form when rising seas flood a sinkhole, formed when limestone bedrock is dissolved from below by groundwater and collapses.\u00a0The team collected a continuous, nine-meter (30-foot) sediment core from the bluehole as part of their efforts to construct a record of the frequency and intensity of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/oceanus\/feature\/to-catch-a-hurricane\">tropical cyclones in the western Atlantic<\/a>. (Photo courtesy of Pete van Hengstum, Texas A&amp;M University)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHOI geologist\u00a0Jeff Donnelly\u00a0and research assistant Richard Sullivan recently joined Texas A&amp;M University at Galveston (TAMUG) geologist Pete van Hengstum and undergraduate student Tyler Winkler in collecting\u00a0cores from Thatchpoint Bluehole. It is thought that blueholes form when rising seas flood a sinkhole, formed when limestone bedrock is dissolved from below by groundwater and collapses.\u00a0The team collected&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":1078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/coastalgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/coastalgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/coastalgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/coastalgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/coastalgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/coastalgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/coastalgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/coastalgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/coastalgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/coastalgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/coastalgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}