# CBC News 2020: Money pit or sinkhole? Retired geologist digs up Oak Island's history

> CBC News, 2020. 7 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Journalism; used for the existence of the unpublished consulting reports and for the sinkhole…

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# Money pit or sinkhole? Retired geologist digs up Oak Island's history

CBC News, 2020. _CBC News, Nova Scotia_.

Reports retired petroleum geologist Steven Aitken's review of the Warnock Hersey and Golder Associates consulting reports (late 1960s, early 1970s) and the 1995 Woods Hole report, concluding that the pit is a collapsed cavity in Windsor Group gypsum.

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## What it's used for here

Journalism; used for the existence of the unpublished consulting reports and for the sinkhole reading.

## Cited by on this site 7 records

[The finds are a mix of ordinary colonial and later debris from farming, logging, military use, shipbuilding…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/answers/ANS0D52XGA00GT9/the-finds-are-a-mix-of-ordinary-colonial-and-later-debris)

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[Triton-era consulting reports and core logs](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/artifacts/ART0D52Y15206MT/triton-era-consulting-reports-and-core-logs)

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[A 1995 Woods Hole dye study attributed the flooding to natural freshwater and tidal interaction.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/evidence/EVD0D52X8QT2C66/a-1995-woods-hole-dye-study-attributed-the-flooding-to)

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[A retired geologist who read the Warnock Hersey, Golder and Woods Hole reports concluded the pit is a…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/evidence/EVD0D52X69P3F1T/a-retired-geologist-who-read-the-warnock-hersey-golder-and)

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[Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution surveys the site for Triton](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/events/EVT0D52X1DE61R5/woods-hole-oceanographic-institution-surveys-the-site-for)

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[The Oak Island money pit](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island)

The mystery article

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[Are the "flood tunnels" man-made?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/questions/QST0D52X3443MBJ/are-the-flood-tunnels-man-made)

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CBC News (2020). Money pit or sinkhole? Retired geologist digs up Oak Island's history. CBC News, Nova Scotia. https://amp.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.5573186
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