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    What Is Subsidence
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What Is Subsidence

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What is subsidence?


A) when rocks fall rapidly off cliffs
B) forces that oppose gravity and drive slopes to fail
C) sinking or downward settling of the ground
D) individual episodes of mass wasting
E) piles of angular rock fragments

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