Tectonic subsidence
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Tectonic subsidence
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Tectonic subsidence is the sinking of the Earth's crust on a large scale, relative to crustal-scale features or the geoid. The movement of crustal plates and accommodation spaces produced by faulting brought about subsidence on a large scale in a variety of environments, including passive margins, aulacogens, fore-arc basins, foreland basins, intercontinental basins and pull-apart basins. Three mechanisms are common in the tectonic environments in which subsidence occurs: extension, cooling and
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Sinking of the Earth's crust on a large scale
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tectonic_subsidence
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2023-11-20T18:24:26Z
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