{"id":4971,"date":"2011-08-18T18:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T23:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=4971"},"modified":"2011-08-18T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T23:13:08","slug":"the-wagonwheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/08\/the-wagonwheel\/","title":{"rendered":"the wagonwheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5457\" title=\"wagonwheel\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/wagonwheel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/wagonwheel.jpg 525w, http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/wagonwheel-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>[The &#8220;Wagonwheel&#8221;, an unusual circular pattern of canals just south of Yellow Cotton Bay, also owes its pattern to the combination of geology and extractive logistics. \u00a0Here, the oil companies&#8217; canals depart from their typically linear vocabulary to follow the roughly circular limit of a raised salt dome. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salt_dome\">Salt domes<\/a> form when buried deposits of rock salt, which typically has a lower density than the surrounding materials, slowly rise through sedimentary material, thrusting upward towards the surface. \u00a0(The study of the &#8220;geometries and processes&#8221; associated with the movement\u00a0of salt through the earth is known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salt_tectonics\">&#8220;salt tectonics&#8221;<\/a>.) \u00a0As they do so, the strata they crunch through tend to bend upward at the edges of the forming salt domes, producing pockets where hydrocarbons &#8212; like petroleum and natural gas &#8212; can collect. \u00a0Those filled pockets attract the extractors, and the extractors produce patterns like the Wagonwheel. \u00a0 These salt domes are not uncommon in the delta region: <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=jefferson+island,+la&amp;hl=en&amp;ll=29.898401,-91.890678&amp;spn=0.240485,0.308647&amp;sll=29.367216,-89.748001&amp;sspn=0.483513,0.878906&amp;vpsrc=6&amp;gl=us&amp;t=h&amp;z=12\">Avery Island<\/a>, for instance, is another example (and also a site of extraction.)]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[The &#8220;Wagonwheel&#8221;, an unusual circular pattern of canals just south of Yellow Cotton Bay, also owes its pattern to the combination of geology and extractive logistics. \u00a0Here, the oil companies&#8217; canals depart from their typically linear vocabulary to follow the roughly circular limit of a raised salt dome. \u00a0Salt domes form when buried deposits of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,594,3],"tags":[442,632,558,633],"class_list":["post-4971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-floods","category-landscape","tag-deltaic","tag-extraction","tag-industrial","tag-tectonics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4971"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5461,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971\/revisions\/5461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}