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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Bayou_Corne_sinkholeBayou Corne sinkhole - Wikipedia

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   at least 750 ft (230 m) 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 ...

   • First flooded: August 3, 2012
   • Surface area: 37 acres (15 ha)

   • Max. depth: at least 750 ft (230 m)

2. www.beg.utexas.edu › publications › subsidence-andSubsidence and Collapse at Texas Salt Domes

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   Subsidence at salt domes results from man-induced and natural removal of salt, cap rock, minerals within the cap rock, and supradomal fluids. In the Houston diaper province, Frasch sulfur mining as caused subsidence bowls and collapse sinkholes at 12 of the 14 sulfur productive domes.

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4. www.motherjones.com › environment › 2013Meet the Town That’s Being Swallowed by a Sinkhole

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   Aug 7, 2013 · Texas Brine’s first and last mapping project was in 1982, and by the company’s own admission, it understated Oxy3’s proximity to the edge of the salt dome and the possibility of a breach.

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5. www.mentalfloss.com › posts › bayou-corne-louisianaWhen a Lake Swallowed the Earth: The Story of the Louisiana ...

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   Jan 8, 2024 · Texas Brine took most of the heat for the sinkhole, as experts initially faulted the company for excessive drilling into the dome’s supporting wall, causing the collapse. However, in 2015, Texas ...

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   What caused the Texas Brine sinkhole?

   • During our outing, Cranch floats two possible culprits for the sinkhole: an oil well that another company drilled just outside the edge of the dome in the 1950s, or perhaps an earthquake. This isn’t the official Texas Brine position, he’s careful to add—”that’s just Millard Cranch, theorizing.”

   Meet the Town That’s Being Swallowed by a Sinkhole

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   What happens when salt is extracted from a dome?

   • When salt is extracted from a dome’s core, a lining of impervious salt crystals is left behind. In Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, some of these hard-walled caverns are used to hold emergency fuel for the federal government’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

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   How did salt domes form?

   • The regular influx of seawater over land created salt fields that were eventually covered by rocks. In at least 127 places in the state, massive underground salt domes— subterranean formations that occur when salt pushes upwards into the overlying rocks—have grown over centuries, sometimes thousands of feet high.

   When a Lake Swallowed the Earth: The Story of the Louisiana Sinkhole

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   Is Texas Brine a sinkhole?

   • As the symptoms worsened towards the end of July, Texas Brine officially denied the likelihood of a sinkhole. In reality, the Oxy3 cavern had begun to collapse. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal issued an evacuation order on August 3, 2012, after residents reported smells of crude oil throughout the town.

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7. placesjournal.org › article › when-the-ground-givesWhen the Ground Gives Way - Places Journal

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   Text by Katy Reckdahl. August 2019. 1447 LA-70. [Virginia Hanusik] The sinkhole that led residents to abandon the Louisiana town of Bayou Corne first opened on August 3, 2012, as a “slurry hole” the size of a tennis court. The cave-in announced itself with a massive burp of diesel oil coming from below the earth.

   • Author: Katy Reckdahl, Virginia Hanusik

   • Publish Year: 2019

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8. clui.org › projects › salt-domes-gulf-coastNapoleonville Salt Dome | The Center for Land Use Interpretation

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   The Napoleonville dome, at Bayou Corne, is the site of a major sinkhole formation, where an underground storage cavity made by Texas Brine collapsed in 2012, forming a lake of more than 25 acres. One dramatic stage of the collapse was captured on video, and portions of the flooded forest can be seen moving sideways before being sucked down into ...

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10. www.theadvocate.com › baton_rouge › newsJudge: Fault for Bayou Corne sinkhole lies with Texas Brine ...

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    Jan 12, 2018 · Sinkhole caused by Texas Brine's failed underground salt dome cavern, with Bayou Corne and surrounding community, background, in aerial photograph taken Sept. 26, 2013.