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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 ...
Where wildfires are burning in Texas right now. Tracking the fires: Texas fires map: Track wildfires as Smokehouse Creek blaze engulfs 500,000 acres. Contributing: Ramon Padilla, Karina Zaiets ...
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 ...
“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.”
And, yes, sinkholes are often weather dependent. “Sinkholes of the South Jersey variety can happen anytime,” Maillet said. “Water infrastructure is particularly sensitive to freezing ...
The 1981 sinkhole, which grew out of the smaller 1969 sinkhole, is thought to have formed from a collapse in the salt dome and is now a lake. The cause of the 2008 sinkhole is not yet known, but a collapse in the salt dome that Daisetta sits on is thought to be the cause and suspected to be caused by a company drilling oil out of the area. [5]
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