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单词 subsidence crater
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subsidence crater
b. In sense 4, esp. designating features resulting from subsidence, as subsidence crater, subsidence hollow, etc.
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1846 C. Darwin Let. 25 Feb. in Corr. (1987) III. 294 Forbes has been writing to me, about his subsidence doctrines.
1894 W. M. Conway Climbing & Explor. Karakoram-Himalayas vi. 121 On our way we noticed several subsidence hollows of considerable size, and some grassy shelves likewise formed by the internal yielding of the mountain.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 910 It must be a subsidence-crater due to a sinking of the ground, after the fashion of the great cauldrons seen in the islands of La Palma and Grand Canary.
1952 G. H. Dury Map Interpr. vii. 63 Collapse of large bedding-plane caves would cause shallow depressions at the surface, like the subsidence-hollows of coalfields.
1969 Science 22 Aug. 774 (caption) The AEC's Nevada Test Site... Note the subsidence crater (left of center) from a previous explosion.
1985 Mining Mag. (Nexis) June 490 The land was mostly disused, comprising..refuse tips, derelict buildings, marshland and subsidence ponds.
1999 Which? Aug. 25/1 Most buildings insurance policies include subsidence damage cover as standard.
2006 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 1 Apr. (National section) 1 For years coastal scientists familiar with subsidence rates in the region have suspected estimates of storm damage might have been optimistic.
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