[
US
/səbˈsaɪdəns/
]
[ UK /sˈʌbsɪdəns/ ]
[ UK /sˈʌbsɪdəns/ ]
NOUN
-
an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)
his cancer is in remission - a gradual sinking to a lower level
- the sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it
How To Use subsidence In A Sentence
- The removal of huge amounts of material from the underground deposit causes massive subsidence at the surface.
- It is a shallow subsidence flash, no more than a metre or two in depth at most.
- Irrespective of the mechanism initiating basin formation the amount of subsidence will be amplified by the weight of sediments which accumulate.
- The railway line was closed because of subsidence.
- As a result of the shaly or micritic nature of these formations the decompaction estimates are likely to be minimum estimates, suggesting that subsidence could in fact be considerably greater.
- In my case I have a minor subsidence claim against my insurer. Times, Sunday Times
- In this work, the logarithmic theory is used to calculate the amount of land subsidence.
- The three stacked, sequence-stratigraphic units were produced by episodes of faulting, subsidence, and infilling.
- Wattset al. 1982 have shown that lateral heat flow results in anomalies in the normal thermal subsidence profile following crustal stretching.
- The original neo-Gothic chapel fell victim to subsidence and was replaced in 1963 with a tepee-like structure covered in copper.