Subsidence vs Erosion - What's the difference?
subsidence | erosion |
The process of becoming less active or severe
* Bishop Warburton
A sinking of something to a lower level, especially of part of the surface of the Earth due to underground excavation or seismic activity or groundwater depletion
(uncountable) The result of having been being worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.
* 2012 , (George Monbiot), (Guardian Weekly) , August 24, p.20
(uncountable) The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction, or impact.
(uncountable) Destruction by abrasive action of fluids.
(mathematics, image processing) One of two fundamental operations in (morphological image processing) from which all other morphological operations are derived.
(dentistry) Loss of tooth enamel due to non-bacteriogenic chemical processes.
(medicine) A shallow ulceration or lesion, usually involving skin or epithelial tissue.
As nouns the difference between subsidence and erosion
is that subsidence is the process of becoming less active or severe while erosion is erosion.subsidence
English
Noun
(wikipedia subsidence)- The subdual or subsidence of the more violent passions.
erosion
English
(wikipedia erosion)Noun
(en noun)- Even second-generation in the ground.
