By 1926, the peninsula, still covered with oil derricks, is entirely submerged.

Goose Creek region after subsidence, 1926. 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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