Sentence examples for land sinking from inspiring English sources
Underground, wells are probing ever deeper, sucking aquifers dry, the land sinking at a dramatic rate.
For example, researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder are using satellite data and local measurements to build a tool that can tell governments about expected patterns of land sinking in delta areas.
Whatever argument there may be about individual events there can be no doubt that a combination of sea level rise and the land sinking in the south and east of England is putting more coastal communities at ever increasing risk.
With its landmark 5-to-4 vote last June to uphold President Obama's health care reform law, the Supreme Court once again became the focus of a national debate that centered on its pivotal — and political — role in an increasingly partisan America, with public approval of the highest court in the land sinking to 41 percent in July.
(You can also see this in the tide gauge at Wilmington, N.C). About a third of that change is due to land sinking, or subsidence, which cannot be blamed on humans or climate change.
To the west, land sank as much as 8 feet (2.5 metres).
Parts of the shore of Prince William Sound became "ghost forests", where the land sank several feet, causing tree roots to enter the saltwater and trees to die.
Those who survived the catastrophe reported that cracks opened in the earth's surface, that the ground rolled visibly in waves and that large areas of land sank downwards.
Sometimes the land sank, too.
So that leads to more over-pumping of ground water and plunging aquifers, as the land sinks a foot a year in some spots.
