It's not a sinkhole, it was used as a quarry. The cave system exists due to the evaporite Hith Formation (Late Jurassic) that is exposed in the lowermost part of the wall. The Hith Formation forms the seal for the most prolific oil reservoirs in Saudi Arabia, the Arab A-D reservoirs in Ghawar Field. This outcrop was first studied by a team of SOCAL geologists led by Max Steinecke in the mid-1930s. Its understanding was essential to the discovery of oil in the Eastern Province in 1936, with the famous DMMM-7 well near Dhahran, also called the "Prosperity Well".
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It's not a sinkhole, it was used as a quarry. The cave system exists due to the evaporite Hith Formation (Late Jurassic) that is exposed in the lowermost part of the wall. The Hith Formation forms the seal for the most prolific oil reservoirs in Saudi Arabia, the Arab A-D reservoirs in Ghawar Field. This outcrop was first studied by a team of SOCAL geologists led by Max Steinecke in the mid-1930s. Its understanding was essential to the discovery of oil in the Eastern Province in 1936, with the famous DMMM-7 well near Dhahran, also called the "Prosperity Well".
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