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That solution subsidence is 1. any subsidence due to solution of underlying rock but particularly the subsidence of parts of a formation into hollows or pockets of an immediately underlying soluble formation [10]. 2. a crater-like doline in rock other than karst limestone, formed by surface subsidence above solutionally enlarged fissures in a sub-surface karst limestone stratum [19]. synonyms: (french.) affaissement par dissolution; (german.) losungstaschen, losungstrichter; (greek.) katakathisma thia thialiseos; (italian.) subsidenza per dissoluzione, subsidenza per suberosione; (russian.) prosedanie vsledstvie rastvorenija; (spanish.) subsidencia por disolucion; (turkish.) erime alcalimi; (yugoslavian.) korozivno urusavanje.?

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