Sentences with phrase «induced subsidence»

As a result, they are more likely to have been located in a sheltered bay, inlet, or estuary underlain by relatively recent geologic deposits subject to natural and / or man - induced subsidence.

Novel human - induced subsidence caused by the withdrawal of ground water on a river delta could produce catastrophic effects in exactly these areas that the authors are concerned about.

Robert Morton and others have documented the oil and gas induced subsidence and its affect on coastal wetlands and beaches in the Journal of Coastal Research and other publications.

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Erosion tends to be a long - term ongoing process due to many factors (sea level changes, subsidence, natural or human - induced sediment source modifications).

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.»

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

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.

Ocean loading at continental margins induces a «levering» of continents and a subsidence of offshore regions that has also long been recognized within the GIA literature (Walcott, 1972).