subsidence

n.

沉淀，陷没，下沉；沉淀物；

surface subsidence地表下沉；地表塌陷

ground subsidence地层陷落；地层下陷

land subsidence地面沉降；土地下沉；土地沉陷

subsidence area沉降面积；沉陷地区

1. The supply of sediment is insufficient to offset the rate of subsidence.
   沉积物的补给不足以抵偿沉降的速率。
2. The railway line was closed because of subsidence.
   这条铁路因土地下陷而停止运营。
3. Mining subsidence affects ecological environment of minefield.
   采煤塌陷,严重破坏了矿区的生态环境。
4. Many basins were formed by the subsidence of the earth's crust.
   许多盆地都是因地壳陷落而形成的。

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On postglacial geoid subsidence over the equatorial oceans
Nonlinear subsidence rate estimation using permanent scatterers in differential SAR interferometry
Optimization of untreated oil shale geometry to control subsidence
Continental Stretching--Explanation of Post-Mid-Cretaceous Subsidence of Central North Sea Basin: ABSTRACT
Continental stretching: An explanation of the Post‐Mid‐Cretaceous subsidence of the central North Sea Basin
Construction of tectonic subsidence curves for the early Paleozoic miogeocline, southern Canadian Rocky Mountains: Implications for ...
Sensing the ups and downs of Las Vegas: InSAR reveals structural control of land subsidence and aquifer-system deformation
Rifting process and thermal evolution of the continental margin of Eastern Canada determined from subsidence curves
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