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Avery Island (historically French: Île Petite Anse) is a salt dome best known as the source of Tabasco sauce.Located in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States, it is about three miles (4.8 km) inland from Vermilion Bay, which opens onto the Gulf of Mexico.
Geology of a generic salt dome trap.At Lake Peigneur, the upward thrust of a salt dome, which became the Diamond Crystal salt mine, formed Jefferson Island.. In petroleum geology, the formation of a salt dome often pushes terrain upward from the surrounding land, while also creating a subterranean salt dome trap, holding petroleum deposits.
2022 Tierra Amarilla sinkhole – a 25 m (80 ft) wide and more than 200 m (700 ft) deep sinkhole appeared in the commune of Tierra Amarilla, Atacama Region of Chile close to the Alcaparrosa copper mine on August 1, 2022. The sinkhole continued to grow and stretched 50 m (200 ft) in diameter on August 8. [5]
"In 99% of all cases, sinkholes pop up in carbonate rocks (like limestone or dolomite) or evaporitic rocks (like gypsum or anhydrite)," the science news website ZME Science says.
A diver investigates the purple-colored cyanobacterial mats at the bottom of Lake Huron's Middle Island sinkhole. Discovered in 2010, Lake Huron's sinkholes have been a hotbed for research ever since.
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Sinkholes filled with water, also known as blue holes, completely surround the island nation of The Bahamas, and now OceanGate’s co-founder wants to explore the deepest of them all.