Sentence examples for subsidence of the 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.

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

Just offshore, the westward-moving Pacific Plate slides under another, slowly dragging Hokkaido down with it (which explains the subsidence of the past 100 years).

What follows is a different kind of avalanche – the dramatic subsidence of the couple's seemingly stable relationship and of Tomas's entire being.

Subsidence of the Djibouti-Aden isthmus, also during the Pliocene, permitted the Indian Ocean to flow into the Red Sea as far as the Isthmus of Suez.

Subsidence of the land fringed was thought to allow the reef to grow upward (and outward over its own fore-reef debris).