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