Word: gasfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...torrential spring runoff; the crater walls produced by the same blast served as a restraining dam. Soviet oilmen triggered another nuclear blast to revive the oil flow from a field previously believed to have run dry. Most surprising to Seaborg was a Russian technique of subduing runaway oil-and gasfield fires by atomic explosions. On two occasions 30-kiloton bombs deep beneath the surface succeeded in sealing fissures that fed the flames by carrying natural gas to the surface...
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