What has Happened at the Sinkhole

flyingcuttlefish's avatarThe Louisiana Sinkhole Bugle

A theory by blogger, Freedomrox has his good idea about  the status of the sinkhole today:

From ENE-News comment:

“Unlike Lake Piegneur, this was not a breach of the actual cavern over a lake. Actually, quite the opposite. This area was bubbling normally with the natural methane creep, every once in a while, but just after the BP Macondo disaster began a continous flow of methane to fill the lower subsidence areas traveling through the Miocene shale.
This was a marsh area subsidence that caved in next to the NPLV Salt Dome, whose west side caverns have been breached and water has entered to form a lake from the surrounding swamp water into the subsided (sinkhole) area.
All of the land and trees and other materials that have fallen in created a plug. It is known as a Seep Plug. Unfortunately at the depths the well bore was at…

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