But oil production isn't the only thing to drop at Goose Creek. The land is sinking too. Gaillard Peninsula, which originally jutted into the middle of Tabbs Bay, begins to drop noticeably.

Goose Creek region before subsidence. Detail of diagram from Wallace E. Pratt and Douglas W. Johnson, "Local Subsidence of the Goose Creek Oil Field," Journal of Geology, October-November 1926. Copyright 1926 University of Chicago. Used with permission of the University of Chicago Press.

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