To: AM2000
What is the term for the sinking of the ground when something is extracted from below? Sub-something or other. Anyway, maybe Libya is rapidly converting itself into a lake (the size of Germany?)
To: realpatriot
Subsidence?
3 posted on
03/02/2004 5:58:23 PM PST by
AM2000
To: realpatriot
What is the term for the sinking of the ground when something is extracted from below?
Same thing can happen to oil drilling platforms at sea.
I saw a short film about a Phillips Petroleum platform (in the North Sea, IIRC)
that had the ocean-floor sink enough after pumping out a lot of oil that the
company had to put HUGHMONGOUS hydraulic jacks on the platform legs...then jack up
the platform so that the raging waves wouldn't destroy it.
6 posted on
03/02/2004 6:12:35 PM PST by
VOA
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