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year, after about ten years of active pumping, most of the productive area of the field had subsided three feet, and the submerging of the facilities had already become obvious to field operators.
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Pratt, W.E., and D.W. Johnson, Local subsidence of the Goose Creek oil field, J. Geol., 34 (7), 577-590, 1926.
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