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    latitudes, and the areas of subsidence are the sources of much of the prevailing winds in the Earth's atmosphere. Subsidence also causes many smaller-scale...
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    Glory hole (mining), specifically the subsidence crater produced by underground block caving. Subsidence (atmosphere) - the similar phenomenon observed in...
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    the subsidence model and the antecedent karst model, have been used to explain the development of atolls. According to Charles Darwin's subsidence model...
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    Io (moon) (redirect from Ionian atmosphere)
    compressive stresses leading to mountain formation are the result of subsidence from the continuous burial of volcanic materials. The global distribution...
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    Neptune (redirect from Neptune's atmosphere)
    poles. This is interpreted as evidence for upwelling at the equator and subsidence near the poles, as photochemistry cannot account for the distribution...
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  • atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) or peplosphere, is the lowest part of the atmosphere and its behaviour is directly influenced by its contact with a planetary...
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    associated with light winds at the surface and subsidence of air from higher portions of the troposphere. Subsidence will generally warm an air mass by adiabatic...
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    The atmosphere of Jupiter is the largest planetary atmosphere in the Solar System. It is mostly made of molecular hydrogen and helium in roughly solar...
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    surface as subsidence. Unfortunately, much of the subsidence from groundwater extraction is permanent (elastic rebound is small). Thus, the subsidence is not...
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    that tectonics in the south polar region is probably mainly related to subsidence and associated subduction caused by the process of mass loss. In 2016...
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    the lower atmosphere (the troposphere) the air near the surface of the Earth is warmer than the air above it, largely because the atmosphere is heated...
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    The Great Red Spot is a persistent high-pressure region in the atmosphere of Jupiter, producing an anticyclonic storm that is the largest in the Solar...
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    shapes, sizes, and other characteristics. A pit crater (also called a subsidence crater or collapse crater) is a depression formed by a sinking or collapse...
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    by the explosion, forming a subsidence crater surrounded by ejecta, and releasing high-pressure gases to the atmosphere (the resulting crater is usually...
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    landslides, and in structural engineering, in particular monitoring of subsidence and structural stability. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a form of...
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    in Tennessee by subsidence of 1.5 meters to 6 meters in some places. Lake St. Francis in eastern Arkansas was expanded by subsidence, with sand and coal...
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    entirely frozen with no liquid oceanic or surface water exposed to the atmosphere. The most academically mentioned period of such a global ice age is believed...
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    soil would be rendered radioactive and lofted as dust or vapor into the atmosphere, generating significant fallout. While conventional bunker busters use...
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  • soil formation processes. It exists at the interface of the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. The pedosphere is the skin of the Earth and...
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    releasing toxic fumes; reigniting grass, brush, or forest fires; and causing subsidence of surface infrastructure such as roads, railways, pipelines, electric...
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