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Preferred term

subsidence

Definition

  • [GEMET] 1) A sinking down of a part of the earth's crust, generally due to underground excavations. 2) The sudden sinking or gradual downward settling of the Earth's surface with little or no horizontal motion. The movement is not restricted in rate, magnitude, or area involved. Subsidence may be caused by natural geologic processes, such as solution, thawing, compaction, slow crustal warping, or withdrawal of fluid lava from beneath a solid crust; or by man's activity, such as subsurface mining or the pumping of oil or ground water.

Broader concept

Note

  • [source of definition ] GEMET" , "[controlled by ] Tomas Staszevski , 2013-06-08

Scope note

  • US LTER controlled vocabulary

Creator

  • herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at

In other languages

Arabic

  • هبوط- انهيار أرضي

Bulgarian

  • Слягане

Croatian

  • slijeganje

Czech

  • sedání

Danish

  • nedsynkning

Dutch

  • (grond)verzakking

Estonian

  • maapinna vajumine, vajumine (geol)

Finnish

  • painuma, (maan) vajoaminen

French

  • affaissement

German

  • Absinken (geologisch)

Greek

  • κατάρρευση

Hungarian

  • süllyedés

Italian

  • subsidenza

Latvian

  • augsnes iegrimšana

Lithuanian

  • susmukimas

Norwegian

  • innsynking (geologisk)

Polish

  • osiadanie

Portuguese

  • subsidência

Romanian

  • subzistenţă

Slovak

  • sadanie pôdy

Slovenian

  • posedanje

Spanish

  • hundimiento

Swedish

  • jordskorpesänkning

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/21291

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