Sentence examples for subsidence of from inspiring English sources

One tectonic mechanism invokes jerky subsidence of the basin of sedimentation.

Subsidence of the continental shelf has proceeded, with some reversals, since the early Miocene.

It took 27 years to build, owing to subsidence of the apparently substantial island.

Despite the subsidence of the seafloor since then, the reason for their demise is less clear.

The shallow-water, shallow-basin model produces thick evaporites by continual subsidence of the basin floor.

Hawthorne's death date (1864) coincided roughly with a qualified subsidence of the literature of the didactic.

The subsidence of land in the east of the UK is as much as 2mm a year.

Block faulting also occurs where blocks are pulled apart, causing a subsidence of the intervening valley between diverging blocks.

What has happened does seem more like a subsidence of foam than a thorough burst of a bubble.

In the vacuum left by the subsidence of labor unions, a rough movement sometimes known as Alt-Labor — community groups, "worker centers" — has emerged.

"Add to that, an annual subsidence of 4 mm and you are sitting on a volcano.