Sentence examples for to subsidence from inspiring English sources

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

They are subject to subsidence by thawing of permafrost in summer, frost heaving in winter, and loss of bearing strength on fine-grained sediments in summer.

The term craton is used to distinguish such regions from mobile geosynclinal troughs, which are linear belts of sediment accumulations subject to subsidence (i.e., downwarping).

Where oil was found, the process of extraction caused some areas to slump — Louisiana "floats on oil like a drunkard's teeth on whiskey," A. J. Liebling once wrote — further contributing to subsidence.

In parts of both continents it has been determined that the base of the ice is below sea level, probably due at least in part to subsidence of the crust under the weight of the caps.

The company faced opposition from people who said there was not enough water in the area and that the ground was subject to subsidence that could wreck a cooling pond.

You'd hesitate to call it more poppy – this is still an album on which standard verse-chorus structures are very much subject to subsidence, and on which the instruments buried deep in the mix frequently seem to be playing an entirely different song to those in the foreground – but it's certainly sharper and more focused.

This subrosion process led to subsidence in the surrounding area.

Linear regression analysis was used to correlate Paproski scores to subsidence and percentage WOMAC score improvements to subsidence.

In cities, series of pictures can reveal areas subject to subsidence.

Constrained plates were criticized for stress shielding that may lead to subsidence and pseudarthrosis.