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The Bayou Corne sinkhole (French: Doline de Bayou Corne) was created from a collapsed underground salt dome cavern operated by Texas Brine Company and owned by Occidental Petroleum. The sinkhole , located near the community of Bayou Corne in northern Assumption Parish , Louisiana , was discovered on August 3, 2012, and 350 nearby residents were ...
The Devil's Sinkhole is a vertical natural bat habitat. The 40-by-60-foot (12.2 m × 18.3 m) opening drops down to reveal a cavern some 400 feet (122 m) below. While likely known to native peoples, the cavern was first discovered in modern times by Ammon Billings, a local rancher leading a scouting party of five, west of Hackberry Creek in ...
Bering Sinkhole – natural limestone sinkhole in Texas used for prehistoric burials [4] Big Basin Prairie Preserve – St. Jacob's Well, Kansas, a water-filled sinkhole which lies in the Little Basin, and the Big Basin, a 1.5-kilometre-wide (1 mi) crater-like depression; Blue Hole (Castalia) – a fresh water pond located in Castalia, Erie ...
Florida, Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Pennsylvania are the U.S. states where sinkholes are most likely to open up, according to the American Geosciences Institute.
“My worst fear is for it to overtake us at night,” one resident told a news outlet. “So that’s the reason we haven’t really been able to sleep.”
The town is home to one of the biggest sinkholes in Texas. [citation needed] Sour Lake became a short-lived boomtown with the discovery of oil in 1901, shortly after oil was found at the nearby Spindletop salt dome. [5] It is known as the birthplace of Texaco. [5]
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Daisetta Sinkholes – Daisetta, Texas. Several sinkholes have formed, the most recent in 2008 with a maximum diameter of 620 ft (190 m) and maximum depth of 45 m (150 ft). [73] [74] Devil's Millhopper – Gainesville, Florida. 35 m (120 ft) deep, 500 ft (150 m) wide. Twelve springs, some more visible than others, feed a pond at the bottom. [75]