subsidence 1. A sinking down of a part of the earth's crust, generally due to underground excavations. 2. The sudden sinking or gradual downward settling of the Earth's surface with little or no horizontal motion. The movement is not restricted in rate, magnitude, or area involved. Subsidence may be caused by natural geologic processes, such as solution, thawing, compaction, slow crustal warping, or withdrawal of fluid lava from beneath a solid crust; or by man's activity, such as subsurface mining or the pumping of oil or ground water [səb'saɪd(ə)ns] adj.

environ.

subsidenza

subsidence

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subsidence
earth.sc.	sprofondamento del terreno; cedimento; subsidenza; subsidenza del fondo; sussidenza
life.sc.	assestamento
life.sc. construct.	smottamento
life.sc. el.	compattazione; costipamento
mater.sc. construct.	avvallamento


substructure
construct.	struttura d'appoggio
industr.	sottostruttura
med.	infrastruttura


of
gen.	di