EnvThes
type: ConceptScheme

subsidence
type: Concept
in scheme: EnvThes
note: [source of definition ] GEMET" , "[controlled by ] Tomas Staszevski , 2013-06-08
scope note: US LTER controlled vocabulary
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: biogeochemical process
preferred label: هبوط- انهيار أرضي @ar
preferred label: Слягане @bg
preferred label: κατάρρευση @el
preferred label: süllyedés @hu
preferred label: susmukimas @lt
preferred label: subzistenţă @ro
preferred label: subsidência @pt
preferred label: subsidenza @it
preferred label: slijeganje @hr
preferred label: (grond)verzakking @nl
preferred label: Absinken (geologisch) @de
preferred label: affaissement @fr
preferred label: augsnes iegrimšana @lv
preferred label: hundimiento @es
preferred label: innsynking (geologisk) @no
preferred label: jordskorpesänkning @sv
preferred label: maapinna vajumine, vajumine (geol) @et
preferred label: nedsynkning @da
preferred label: osiadanie @pl
preferred label: painuma, (maan) vajoaminen @fi
preferred label: posedanje @sl
preferred label: sadanie pôdy @sk
preferred label: sedání @cs
modified: 2019-06-12

biogeochemical process
type: Concept
narrower: subsidence