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Slumpage vs Stumpage - What's the difference?

slumpage | stumpage |

As nouns the difference between slumpage and stumpage

is that slumpage is (geology) the act or result of slumping or sinking down while stumpage is trees and other standing timber, treated as a commodity.

slumpage

English

Noun

(-)
  • (geology) The act or result of slumping or sinking down.
  • * 1974 , United States. Dept. of the Interior. Office of Economic Analysis, Deregulation of natural gas prices
    • The soil slumpage due to fluid removal and to explosives used in seismic exploration cannot always be mitigated.

    stumpage

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Trees and other standing timber, treated as a commodity.
  • * C. S. Sargent
    • Only trees above a certain size are allowed to be cut by loggers buying stumpage from the owners of land.
  • The value of this timber.
  • The right to fell such timber.
  • The fee for the right to fell such timber.
    • (The Nation)
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