Sentences with phrase «called subsidence»

Beyond sea level rise, San Francisco is slowly sinking at a rate of up to 10 millimeters per year in a process called subsidence.

The natural pace of sinking — scientists call it subsidence — would have been mere millimeters per year.

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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.

It exhibits at least six marine terraces; evidence of repeated tectonic uplift and subsidence (so called porpoising).