NALT

Preferred term

subsidence

Topic

Lowering of the natural land surface in response to: Earth movements; lowering of fluid pressure; removal of underlying supporting material by mining or solution of solids, either artificially or from natural causes; compaction due to wetting (Hydrocompaction); oxidation of organic matter in soils; or added load on the land surface.

mass movement

soil formation

Field 001 in MARC Authority Format

36249

Spanish

hundimiento del suelo
subsidencia

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/51611

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Created 1/19/06, last modified 12/16/19