Sentences with phrase «by subsidence»

Sections of the Delta - Mendota Canal, another critical water conveyance structure connecting the Delta to the heart of the San Joaquin Valley's farmland, have been damaged over the decades by subsidence, according to Hunt.

Across the Kalahari and Sahara deserts, precipitation is inhibited by subsidence virtually throughout the year.

The only thing that prevents me from thinking that it is all is sea level as measured by tide gauges, but recent evidence that a significant fraction of SLR may be caused by subsidence that we are only just barely beginning to measure with universal GPS access is making me wonder even about that.

Over half of the Chesapeake Bay region «sea level rise» is in fact caused by subsidence, which in turn has been caused by ground water abstraction.

We show that the influx of water into the volume created by this subsidence produces a sea - level fall at locations distant from these margins — indeed over the major ocean basins — that is comparable in amplitude to the syphoning mechanism isolated by Mitrovica and Peltier (1991).»

for article Threshold in North Atlantic - Arctic Ocean circulation controlled by the subsidence of the Greenland - Scotland Ridge.

Not exact matches

The best path» not the easiest, but the most idyllic» lies across a small waterfall created by a thick tangle of oak and Asian Tulip roots over a minor subsidence in the soil.

With further subsidence, the soils will ultimately be salinized by salt groundwater and valuable agricultural land will be lost.

This is just one of 12 giant eruptions reported from the area by the Leicester team, who show that intense hotspot magmatism caused major crustal subsidence, forming the 100 km - wide Snake River Basin.

Now, the Florida Geological Survey maintains the only database of sinkholes across the state — or what it calls «subsidence incidents,» as most have not been checked by a professional engineer.

On top of that, the coastal areas hit hardest — the Louisiana wetlands — are already under acute stress from subsidence, erosion and the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The subsidence was accompanied by 77 earthquakes reaching magnitudes larger than M 5.

In their study, the scientists show how the ice - filled subsidence bowl developed gradually over the course of six months to become eight by eleven kilometers wide and up to 65 meters deep.

The process of subsidence was triggered by the lateral intrusion of magma from a reservoir 12 kilometers below the surface.

In the Mississippi Delta, where rates of land loss are especially severe, subsidence of the land surface reflects natural processes, such as sediment compaction and crustal loading, but this is exacerbated by anthropogenic withdrawal of fluids (water, oil, natural gas).

Thus, induced seismicity can be caused by injecting fluid into the subsurface or by extracting fluids at a rate that causes subsidence and / or slippage along planes of weakness in the earth.»

Barry was also shocked by the committee's decision not to nominate Tulane professor Tor Tornqvist, a leading expert on subsidence and sea - level rise.

The Walker circulation refers to the mean (steady) ciculation where air over the warm pool in the western part of the tropical Pacific rises, being fed by the easterly surface trade winds across the Pacific, and subsidence over eastern Pacific.

Additionally, sea level rise driven by climate warming combined with coastal subsidence related to human activities increased the storm surge while urban development such as paving over grasslands and prairies are likely to have exacerbated flooding.

That option is currently being tested by Thorne and UCLA researchers at Orange County's Seal Beach, where sea level rise is simulated because the ground has experienced subsidence, or sinking.

27.6.1 For the purposes of this clause 27.6, «Force Majeure Event» means any act or event beyond the reasonable control of the Company, including without limitation strikes, lock - outs or other industrial action by third parties, civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war, fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster, or failure of public or private telecommunications networks.

(a) For the purposes of this clause 13.1, «Force Majeure Event» means any act or event beyond the reasonable control of ELITESINGLES, including without limitation strikes, lock - outs or other industrial action by third parties, civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war, fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster, or failure of public or private telecommunications networks.

An Event Outside Our Control means any act or event beyond our reasonable control, [including without limitation strikes, lock - outs or other industrial action by third parties, civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war, fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster, or failure of public or private telecommunications networks].

The car in the pictures looks like the rear portion of the roof has dropped owing to subsidence, possibly caused by the visual weight of the blackened rear anchor of the roof bars.

Studies done by The Kennel Club show that the Boston terrier dams are more likely to suffer uterine inertia as opposed to a physical blockage, leading to extreme subsidence in contractions.

Nor is it helped by the fact that the servers are as bad as they were back in the Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsidence days.

Emmet Gowin (American, b. 1941) Subsidence Craters on Yucca Flat, Nevada Test Site, 1997, printed 2008, edition of 35 plus 21 artist proofs, from The PRC Portfolio published by the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University.

Our approach estimates the eustatic sea - level contribution to the palaeobathymetry curve by placing constraints on total subsidence and decompacted sediment accumulation.

The fate of Bangladesh's lowlands will be determined by a mix of changes in the height of the Indian Ocean, subsidence of deltas as aquifers are drained and newly deposited sediments compress, and the addition of all that Himalayan soil.

Taking into account the obscuring effects of high cloud, it was found that thick low clouds decreased by more than 20 % in the eastern tropical Pacific... In contrast, most increase in low cloud amount due to doubled CO2 simulated by the NCAR and GFDL models occurs in the subtropical subsidence regimes associated with a strong atmospheric stability.»

Most of the Middle Mississippi River levees are currently rated Unacceptable (like 44.5 % of rated levee miles nationwide); plus there are major geotechnical issue documented by our research — subsidence and compaction and un-permitted levee modifications using road gravel that is unsuited to flood control.

But the troposphere can still warm with an increased radiative cooling term because it is also balanced by heating through latent heat release, subsidence, solar absorption, increased IR flux from the surface, etc..

Yet we know well that our current flooding predictions will be entirely obsolete in less than two decades, as thousands of miles of coastlines are slowly claimed by rising seas, due both to coastal subsidence and global warming.

Tide gauges (unlike satellites) measure sea level relative to the land, so these data are «contaminated» by land uplift or subsidence.

It seems possible that those tens of thousands of circular depressions were generated by similar methane gas eruptions, followed by melting of ice and methane hydrate and subsidence to enlarge the initial gas eruption craters.

Today, flooding remains the most pressing concern with future vulnerability increased by climate change increases in hurricane intensity, continued subsidence, loss of protective wetlands, and inadequate protection.

In New Orleans, geophysical vulnerability is characterized by its below - sea level, bowl - shaped location, its accelerating subsidence, rising sea level, storm surges, and possible increased frequency of larger hurricanes from climate change.

But these estimates were still being used 19 years later, when sea level had risen by 7 inches, storm waves and surges by similar amounts, and subsidence within the levees had lowered the land surface by 10 feet and (USGS 2004).

This suggests that the subsidence is primarily caused by ground water extraction for industrial and agricultural use, respectively.

The first diagram shows by way of a broken green line the undulation in tropopause height band if you look at the green arrows in the cloud to the left that lateral flow corresponds with my diagram but I extend the flow downwards beneath the distorted tropopause to the top of the adjoining subsidence column which is actually situated off to the right of this picture which focuses on frontal disturbances between low and high pressure cells rather than on the relationship between the low and high pressure cells themselves.

The problem will be compounded in many river deltas (Ganges, Mississippi, Nile, etc.) by a half meter or so of subsidence as dams impound sediment and water is withdrawn from aquifers.

The only places experiencing an APPARENT rise are where there is subsidence induced by ground water extraction.

In France alone, subsidence related losses have risen by more than 50 percent in the last two decades, costing affected regions an average of $ 340 million [$ 492 million] per year.»

I attribute both the «global» (dominated by Atlantic basin measurement points) and European supposed «rise» in sea level to tectonic subsidence at the passive margin combined with the trailing edge of the great melt of 10K years ago.

In some regions, the soil subsidence loss potential for the period 2021 — 2040 is expected to increase by more than 50 percent compared to today.»

Hereabouts, subsidence accounted for about half the «alarming» rate of sea level rise along the coast as measured by tide gauges.

People living near Kostolac — with houses close to the opencast mine which feeds the power plant — say there is a high rate of respiratory disease in the area; houses have also been damaged by land subsidence.

Detailed impacts, however, will vary strongly from region to region and coast to coast and therefore can not be easily generalized, as changing mean and extreme coastal water levels depend on a combination of near shore and offshore processes, related to climatic but also non-climatic anthropogenic factors, such as natural land movement arising from tectonics, volcanism or compaction; land subsidence due to anthropogenic extraction of underground resources; and changes in coastal morphology resulting from sediment transport induced by natural and / or anthropogenic factors.

In cities such as Jakarta, the rise is aggravated by big local subsidence.

However, as we have seen throughout this section, the tidal gauge estimates the IPCC used to estimate global sea level trends are contaminated by local trends, such as tectonic activity, post-glacial rebound... and the coastal subsidence that Syvitski et al. identified!