<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Here's a quick info page regarding sink holes in General. How this dynamic would work underwater is more complex I'm sure but this illustrates the kind of geological incidents that can occur.<br><br>http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/guide/sinkholes.html<br><br>Lulu<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 10/6/10, keller0@unbc.ca <i><keller0@unbc.ca></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: keller0@unbc.ca <keller0@unbc.ca><br>Subject: Re: [All] offshore oil<br>To: "Susan Koswan" <dandelion@gto.net><br>Cc: "'GREN2'" <all@gren.ca><br>Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 6:42 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Hey, look, I actually may have learned something in those classes I took...<br><br>There are some incidences of considerable land subsidence in the US as a<br>result of
underground water resource depletion (there must be pictures on<br>the web). If I recall correctly, it depends on the type of aquifer it is<br>being taken (i.e. whether the water is in spaces in between the structural<br>components of the rock, or actually making up/floating some of the<br>structural components of the rock). In the case of overburden aquifers, I<br>don't think it can happen, and it doesn't happen with the majority of<br>bedrock types.<br><br>When it occurs in liquid form rather than as part of rock or overburden<br>deposit, oil is in diapirs: pocket structures that are actually floating<br>towards the surface of the bedrock because oil is less dense than rock. <br>Because these are pockets, they can subside as they are evacuated, again<br>depending on the properties of the overlying rock. I don't know much<br>about, it, but I imagine they backfill the pocket with water so that<br>collapse doesn't happen on land, but
under water perhaps they just aren't<br>concerned with that?<br><br>Hope that helped,<br>Linette<br><br>> FYI, for those of you who get National Geographic make sure you check out<br>> the map of all the offshore oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico off Texas<br>> and Louisiana. If you don't, find a copy. I can't tell you the last time I<br>> was so shocked. The number of platforms is absolutely mind boggling. Who<br>> knew.<br>><br>><br>><br>> Apparently the shoreline is actually getting lower. It's obvious that it's<br>> a<br>> huge connected reservoir of oil. Is it the same with groundwater? If<br>> groundwater reservoirs get "used up" and are not continually recharged, is<br>> it possible for sinkholes to form? The ground above to collapse? Just<br>> wondering.<br>><br>><br>><br>> Susan Koswan<br>><br>><br>><br>> pareto2080: The Return of Pareto<br>><br>> by Susan
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