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The subsidence of a floor, whilst it still remains nearly horizontal, may at first appear improbable; but the case presents no more real difficulty than that of loose objects strewed on the surface of a field, which, as we have seen, become buried several inches beneath the surface in the course of a few years, though still forming a horizontal layer parallel to the surface.
The christening took place in the school-house at Wallsend, the old parish church being at the time in so dilapidated a condition from the “creeping” or subsidence of the ground, consequent upon the excavation of the coal, that it was considered dangerous to enter it.
Keeling Island Singular appearance Scanty Flora Transport of Seeds Birds and Insects Ebbing and flowing Springs Fields of dead Coral Stones transported in the roots of Trees Great Crab Stinging Corals Coral eating Fish Coral Formations Lagoon Islands, or Atolls Depth at which reef-building Corals can live Vast Areas interspersed with low Coral Islands Subsidence of their foundations Barrier Reefs Fringing Reefs Conversion of Fringing Reefs into Barrier Reefs, and into Atolls Evidence of changes in Level Breaches in Barrier Reefs Maldiva Atolls, their peculiar structure Dead and submerged Reefs Areas of subsidence and elevation Distribution of Volcanoes Subsidence slow, and vast in amount.
The subsidence of the political fever from 1891 to 1898 was not without its compensations in other directions.
As by our theory this area has subsided, and as there is nothing improbable in the death, either from changes in the state of the surrounding sea or from the subsidence being great or sudden, of the corals on the whole, or on portions of some of the atolls, the case of the Chagos group presents no difficulty.
On the north the subsidence in this area was comparatively slight, for the Carboniferous strata scarcely exceed two thousand feet in thickness. But in Arkansas and Indian Territory the downward movement amounted to four and five miles, as is proved by shoal water deposits of that immense thickness.
"Are we to sit still and " "Is it?" broke in the wily controversialist. "How do you account for this, then?" He drew from his pocket a printed leaflet. "Take a peek at those figures. Fewer deaths in the Rookeries this last week than in any week since March." This was true. Not infrequently there comes an inexplicable subsidence of mortality in mid-epidemic.
In its subsidence, life trembled on the verge of extinction. But there was yet sufficient stamina for it to rally upon; and it did rally, and gradually, but very slowly, gained strength.
The building of the choir had caused a subsidence in the crypt, so the work of Roger and others was broken into fragments and patched together, older capitals being placed on Roger's pillars, in the condition in which we now see it. Nothing is known of the history of the vaults of the choir and eastern transepts.
Subsidence would follow the ejection of quantities of such matter; and hence the word 'overthrew, which seems inappropriate to a mere conflagration, would be explained.
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