A Lake Subsides.
A small Icke near Northwich, in Cheshire. England, recently began to sink out of sight, and by nightfall had dropped about twenty feet. It was calculated that approximately 29.060.000 gallons of water had disappeared, and there was much local speculation, and some anxiety as to what the phenomenon portended. The geologists, however, soon set all fear at rest by the following explanation: The area is honeycombed with salt deposits. There are ancient salt workings beneath the lake. Its sudden subsidence was due to the water’s breaking through thp bottom and finding its wav into some subterranean salt-bearing strata. Here it will become impregnated with salt, and eventually be pumped to the surface asn,n with its load of salt for cummerciai use.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 25, 18 December 1912, Page 8
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124A Lake Subsides. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 25, 18 December 1912, Page 8
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