Land-Surface Subsidence at Seabrook, Texas
Description:
Abstract: Removal of water, oil, and gas from the subsurface in Harris and Galveston Counties, Texas, has caused a decline in fluid pressures, which in turn has resulted in subsidence of the land surface. Subsidence of the land surface at Seabrook is due principally to the removal of water. Significant subsidence of the land surface probably began after 1920, and a minimum of about 3.3 feet (1.0 m) and a maximum of about 4.3 feet (1.3 m) of subsidence had occurred at Seabrook by 1973. Probable …
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Date:
October 1976
Creator:
Gabrysch, R. K. & Bonnet, C. W.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department