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In spite of an increasing security of operations, hydrocarbon exploration and extraction may involve accidents which sometimes cause localized but rapid and fundamental changes on the ground surface. In Hungary the scars generated by such accidents are still clearly detectable in many places, best visible in the outskirts of the village Nagyhegyes, where a major explosion took place in 1961. The resultant depression somewhat resembles crown holes (of mine subsidence origin), but has a 6.5-m-high circular rampart. The basin, sealed from below, soon filled up with groundwater and developed into the Crater Lake as we know it today. Although affected by erosion (minor landslips on steep slopes) and sedimentation, particularly in the first decade of its existence, the lake with the rampart has stabilized and survived. Now it functions as a recreational oasis encircled on all sides by the agricultural landscape of the Hajdúság loess-mantled alluvial fan of the Great Hungarian Plain.
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Lóczy, D., Szabó, J., Tóth, C. (2015). The Crater Lake of Nagyhegyes. In: Lóczy, D. (eds) Landscapes and Landforms of Hungary. World Geomorphological Landscapes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08997-3_28
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