Two geologists sent to investigate find that the problem is not restricted to the former peninsula. The entire Goose Creek oil field is sinking dramatically -- in some places by more than three feet in eight years.

Investigators at the scene of a ground fracture on Hogg Island, 1926. On the left, salt water has killed the vegetation. 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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