 The Dome Gas Company drilled a 6,000 feet (1.8 km) well into the structure.This well produced roughly 50,000 cubic feet (150 m³) of natural gas a day, but since that was not profitable, the effort was abandoned.In the early 1970s, another geologist, Yngvar Isachsen of the New York State Geological Survey at the New York State Museum in Albany, wondered if the stream pattern indicated an impact crater buried beneath the surface.