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The Bertha Rogers Borehole is a former natural gas well in Burns Flat, Dill City, Oklahoma, US.Today plugged and abandoned, it was originally drilled by the Lone Star Producing Company as its oil-exploratory hole number 1–27 between October 25, 1972 and April 13, 1974, reaching a then world record terminal depth of 31,441 feet (5.9547 mi; 9,583 m).
Determined to become a millionaire, Slick came to Oklahoma during the winter of 1911 to find "the big one". Although Slick initially found nothing but "dusters" (dry holes), perseverance and luck eventually brought him to the farm of Frank Wheeler, located approximately 12 miles (19 km) east of Cushing, Oklahoma, in what would become Drumright ...
Ames crater is a meteorite crater (astrobleme) in Major County, Oklahoma, United States. Ames, Oklahoma is near the center of the structure, [1] which is 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Enid, Oklahoma. [2] Buried under a thick layer of sediment, it was not discovered until 1991. Subsequent drilling within the crater found a large amount of oil ...
The Anadarko Basin is a geologic depositional and structural basin centered in the western part of the state of Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, and extending into southwestern Kansas and southeastern Colorado. The basin covers an area of 50,000 square miles (130,000 km 2). By the end of the 20th Century, the Anadarko Basin was producing the ...
Scientists have discovered the oldest black hole yet, a cosmic beast formed a mere 470 million years after the Big Bang. ... That is nowhere near the miniscule ratio of the black holes in our ...
The Cooper Bison Kill Site is an archaeological site near Fort Supply in Harper County, Oklahoma, United States.Located along the Beaver River, it was explored in 1993 and 1994 and found to contain artifacts of the Folsom tradition, dated at c.10800 BCE to c. 10,200 BCE in calibrated radiocarbon years. [2]
It was likely a sinkhole, authorities said. Home & Garden. Lighter Side
Indeed, while TBJH was initially discovered in 2021, scientists only measured its depth down to 900 feet due to limitations in the echo-sounder technology — which calculates speed based on sound ...