subsidence

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Hundreds of miles of pipelines have been operating throughout Pennsylvania and the corresponding geology for years without issues from subsidences.

From Washington Times • Oct. 27, 2018

On most occasions, the subsidences — that’s what the scientists call them — are small, like when a sofa-size crater opened up on 10th Street last year.

From New York Times • May 21, 2012

In fact, one or two subsidences of considerable extent have already taken place, due in part no doubt to the dissolving action of rain water, but in part also to the mode of working.

From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Allen, Grant

We may conclude, therefore, either that the original depth of this part of the Bay of Bengal was excessive, or that subsidences have occurred in modern times.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

In this way the great cavities under Northwich which cause all the subsidences are made; they will grow bigger and bigger as long as the pumping up of brine is continued.

From The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 by Various