Sentences with phrase «on subsidence»

Nick has particular specialism in acting for insurers to pursue subrogated recovery actions, with a particular focus on subsidence claims including acting in litigation and mediation.

AGW theorists are being misled by the principle of exclusion Story submitted by Paul Macrae In 1837, Charles Darwin presented a paper to the British Geological Society arguing that coral atolls were formed not on submerged volcanic craters, as argued by pioneering geologist Charles Lyell, but on the subsidence of mountain chains.

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.

Not exact matches

Background subsidence since 1950 has thus not had a significant effect on events differential stress accumulation in the shallow crust.

But we have seen that a thick formation, fossiliferous throughout its entire thickness, can acc.umulate only during a period of subsidence; and to keep the depth approximately the same, which is necessary that the same marine species may live on the same space, the supply of sediment must nearly counterbalance the amount of subsidence.

For years, a combination of levees on the Mississippi, land subsidence, the extension of a vast network...

These new ages provide tighter constraints on the timing of past earthquakes and subsidence at the southern end of the CSZ.

More recently, researchers started using an improved analysis on the microfossil data in Oregon, and were able to generate subsidence estimates with smaller errors.

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.

For subsidence rates in Bangladesh, he says, «depending on how and where you measure, you might get 15 different values».

As a preventive measure, the industry has released guidance to planning authorities on building subsidence risks.

In addition, the Association of British Insurers, the main trade association for insurers in Britain, is engaged in a number of related research projects, which cover such issues as coastal flooding risks, the subsidence of buildings and the effect on claims of climatic factors generally.

Dams on the river have cut the flow of sediment to one - tenth of its normal levels, but this probably accounts for only a few millimeters per year of the overall subsidence, says Higgins.

Subsidence was not mentioned in the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's 2012 report on the state of world aquaculture, says Stephanie Higgins, a PhD geology student at the University of Colorado Boulder who led the study.

Your sinkhole insurance policy may not provide coverage for damages from mine subsidence, so be sure to review your policy carefully to see if you need additional insurance if your Arizona property is on top of an old coal mine.

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.

Emmet Gowin, Subsidence Craters on Yucca Flat, Nevada Test Site, 1997.

Louis insisted on motion too, with one crucial difference: in his works, it's the colors themselves that are set in motion, especially so here, where no matter what distance you choose to view the work from there is a sparkle of gentle subsidence.

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

The Conrad Blucher Institute (on line) has developed apparent sea level rise rates for the Texas and SW Louisiana coasts (this accounts for both subsidence and eustatic sea level changes).

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.

The above picture focuses on frontal zone distortions between low pressure (ascent)-RRB- and high pressure (subsidence) but our interest here is on the interaction between the high and low pressure centres themselves so we can simplify the graphics thus:

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.

Impacts begin with underground mining, which has long been notorious for its safety issues and health effects on miners as well as for surface subsidence (especially with longwall mining) and release of methane gases.

If the large - scale subsidence weakens under warming, the difference between the two approaches is less pronounced, because of a fortuitous compensation between the subsidence and surface energy balance effects on the MBL dynamics.

Someone on another thread had posted something about tectonic subsidence of the Pacific Ocean crust.

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.

Furthermore due to glacial isostatic adjustments, 3 to 4 inches of that relative sea level rise is due to land subsidence on the eastern seaboard.

Anyone doing a modest amount of research on the subject of sea level change will quickly find that land subsidence caused by groundwater pumping is a confounding factor.

CLASSIC example of how sea - level rise is deceitfully abused as evidence of anthropogenic climate change (AGW) when sea - level rise should be treated on a region to region basis to account for, in this case, land subsidence.

We know where flooding or subsidence is likely to occur but they are often in desirable locations such as next to the sea, or next to a river or on top of a cliff that will provide nice views Do people then have to face the consequences of their action?

In the UK the aptly named professor duck, who I have previously quoted, is an expert on geologic subsidence, by far the single biggest factor in the UK for sea level changes and the met office and environment agency work together on sea level.

Based on all of these studies, Stephens and Johnson (1951) concluded that the subsidence rate would be one foot per decade assuming that the water table is maintained at an 18 — 24 inch depth.

This in turn also leads to lateral growth of the Walker Cell — and therefore pole - ward migration (on both hemispheres) of the subtropical subsidence zone, where air under downward force is compressed at the Earth surface and semi-perminent high pressure systems lead to strucutural drought and desertification.

Boutrous pointed out that while global sea levels are rising on average, some evidence shows that sea levels have fallen in specific regions, and coastal flooding in places like the San Francisco Bay Area is also a function of local conditions like land subsidence.

Perhaps some gross thermomechanical process of restructuring the climate mechanisms (some small fraction of these were identified in the Stadium Wave paper, for instance) is ongoing, and the energy of restructuring — melting, subliming and carrying away Arctic sea ice and Greenland and Antarctic land ice net to the atmosphere, higher humidity absorbing gross water amounts to a level impacting sea level rise on the millimeter or sub-millimeter level, expansion of land due heat, or more likely erosion, silting and subsidence, and so on — is responsible for a Black Swan.

In the intellectual - sounding article on Kahan, the Florida part doesn't even mention subsidence.

On the eastern side, subsidence from the Hadley circulation is enhanced by the tendency of air to preserve its angular momentum on the rotating EartOn the eastern side, subsidence from the Hadley circulation is enhanced by the tendency of air to preserve its angular momentum on the rotating Earton the rotating Earth.

In both hemispheres, subsidence is greater on the eastern sides of the highs.

The physical model I have in mind for this negative WV feedback is based on a proposal of Prof. William Gray (Colorado State University), who pictured cumulus clouds carrying moisture into the UT, but occupying only a small area; the remaining (and much larger) area experiences descending air («subsidence»)-- hence drying.

The authors observe that wide variations in rates of tectonic uplift and subsidence in different locations around the world at particular times mean no effective coastal management plan can rest upon speculative computer projections regarding an idealised future global sea level, such as those provided by the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Thousands of new water wells have been constructed on an emergency basis over the past year, and skyrocketing rates of groundwater pumping have led to rapid land subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley.

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.

Here is a contour map of the area around southern Texas overlaid on a NOAA map, showing how subsidence has affected Galveston Island.

«Approximately three quarters (74 %) of the sea level rise on Galveston Island is due to subsidence from groundwater withdrawal.»

Whether the large - scale thermodynamic environment and atmospheric static stability (often measured by Convective Available Potential Energy, CAPE) becomes more favourable for tropical storms depends on how changes in atmospheric circulation, especially subsidence, affect the static stability of the atmosphere, and how the wind shear changes.

«It's ironic that the nation's capital — the place least responsive to the dangers of climate change — is sitting in one of the worst spots it could be in terms of this land subsidence,» said Paul Bierman, a UVM geologist and the senior author on the new paper.

Low emitters that are likely to be disproportionately affected by climate change are subsidence farmers like on the great river deltas (Eg Ganges, Niger, Mekong etc).

(Especially the bit about land subsidence) «For Information: A gauge was maintained on behalf of the TOGA Sea Level Center until it was withdrawn in May 1989.

For example, when Hurricane Sandy pushed a record - high storm surge into New York Harbor, the surge rode on top of seas that were already about a foot higher at that location than they were in 1900, due to both climate change - related sea level rise and land subsidence.