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Oil industry sinkhole could take part of Carlsbad NM with it.

Thu Nov 12 2009 6:20 pm
by Bob Morris.
National Cave And Karst Research Institute / via AP

National Cave And Karst Research Institute / via AP

The sinkhole, which could swallow several businesses, was formed by decades of oil companies pumping fresh water into a salt layer, then extracting the brine water.

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