Use the excerpt to answer the question.

“All of a sudden, a chunk of mud came out of the six-inch hole with an explosion just like a canon [cannon] popping off.”
—Al Hamill, Beaumont, Texas, January 10, 1901

What modification to the environment resulted from Hamill's description?(1 point)
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construction of a dam by the LCRA on the lower Colorado River

completion of the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado

the extraction of large quantities of oil from the Spindletop oil field in Beaumont

construction of the first oil derrick in Corsicana

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The extraction of large quantities of oil from the Spindletop oil field in Beaumont.