The canyon that humans made by accident

The tourist guides promote it as Georgia's Little Grand Canyon: but this is a scar on the Earth, caused by humans either not understanding or not caring about geology. Is it natural? Or man-made? Or both?

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[TomScottGo]

This is the last one from the Georgia roadtrip! I did want to descend into the canyon, but a massive storm had been through an hour earlier and turned most of the paths to mud...

[Nhojneirbo]

When a tourist disappears they know it’s time to move the fence.

[pikecell]

'It's not a bug, it's a feature"

[MeterLP]

2:04 A sign that just says "dont do it because I said so" isnt going to stop people. Just write "its just loose clay ya dingus, dont climb here" would be much more effective.
Explained rules are followed, unexplained rules are broken.

[pierrearonnax]

We battle the same sort of catastrophic soil loss from overfarming in the Central Kentucky Karst (where Mammoth Cave is). Once one of those scars gets started, it's damned difficult to stop. Letting the forest take over abandoned farmland is a good beginning.

[danielphilpott]

Don't you hate it when you accidentally create an massive canyon?

[Ramiprops]

There's something similar in Spain called Las Médulas, only deeper, wider and longer. It was very much manmade though by the Romans, as a source of gold. The way they eroded and burst those hills is actually very intricate, and a very interesting visit if you're in the area.

[reidleblanc]

Hey, isn't this the guy who threw two drums and a cymbal off a cliff 9 years ago?

[Rose_Butterfly]

"Until settlers manifested their destiny all over this continent" that's a way of saying it, almost fell off my bed laughing

[stiimuli]

"It's probably fine." (backs away slowly)

[p]

2:17 I'm sure the people who carved "ABC" into the cliff were following those warnings...

[ethanmcmanamey]

"Either they didn't know about crop rotation, or they didn't care."
Yes

[kgoblin]

Interesting tangent, as I recall from being a kid growing up in Georgia & visiting same canyon... Providence Canyon was a major justification all on it's own for the import of Kudzu, which is the invasive species vine that forms all those crazy topiary sculptures you've been seeing the past few days Tom. Kudzu being an attempt to help control erosion that worked a bit... TOO well. In a lot of ways Georgia is kind of the USA'S Australia, in terms of being the poster child of why countries need to quarantine for invasive species borking up the local ecology.

[LBFescape]

I would consider this a "natural" wonder simply because not only was the ground not stable to begin with, but it was natural occurances like erosion that ultimately created the canyon. All the settlers really did was get rid of the trees, which in turn meant the water didn't get soaked up by roots (and grass from all the trampling by walking on it) and just sat and made the ground even more unstable and then eroded said ground downhill over the course of decades. So they caused it by the trees but nature took the wheel after that.

[Werevampiwolf]

"manifested their destiny all over the continent" is probably the best way I've heard of putting it

[KevinDay]

2:17 someone carved the alphabet into it?

[NateandNoahTryLife]

I think it should be counted as a natural wonder. It wasn’t like a single human event made it, but humans are a part of nature I feel in the grand scope of things.

[camicus-]

2:08 When the textures haven't loaded yet

[sternis]

This reminds me of something I did when I was rather small (I might have been like 7 or younger at the point). Me and my family were on vacation to a beach in Denmark I think it was, the memories are a little fuzzy since I wasn't very old). There was some kind of small lake (or rather a very big puddle) on the beach. Me and my siblings (possibly also my dad) decided to dig a trench from the "lake" into the ocean (as kids on the beach do), so we did. It was fun and playtime and we succeded. Water was flowing in a stream of about 10-20 cm from the "lake" to the ocean. Happy with our work, we went on to do something else, eventually leaving the beach. When we came back the day after, our small trench had turned into a huge river, maybe 1 meter across. A lot of people were standing there, looking at the thing we accidentally created.
Details of this might be a little fuzzy (again, I was possible younger than 7 years old), and I'm not 100% sure this actually happened. But yes, I feel the settlers of Georgia, having accidentally created a river.

[fr_ite]

“No, no. I didn’t accidentally create a canyon, boss.”