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Land Subsidence in Urban Environment

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Glossary

Aquifer unit:

Aquifer unit is a geological formation, part of a formation, or a number of formations that provide water substantially and in an adequate quality for the expected usage.

Aquitard:

Aquitard is a geological formation that although insufficiently in producing water as an aquifer unit does, the volume of water that it allows to be released from storage may provide an adverse environmental impact as subsidence.

Compressibility:

Relates the change in volume, or strain, induced in a soil under an applied stress.

Effective stress:

Represents the stress transmitted to the full-saturated soil skeleton when a force per unit area (total normal stress) is transmitted in a normal direction across the measuring plane.

Hydraulic conductivity:

Hydraulic conductivity is the rate of water that an unit volume of aquifer material may allow through under a unit hydraulic gradient such value is a function of its degree of saturation attaining it maximum at 100% saturation, and is also...

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  1. Centro de Geociencias, UNAM Juriquilla, Querétaro, Mexico

    M. Adrián Ortega-Guerrero

  2. Instituto de Geografía, UNAM CU, Coyoacán, Mexico

    José Joel Carrillo-Rivera

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Ortega-Guerrero, M.A., Carrillo-Rivera, J.J. (2012). Land Subsidence in Urban Environment. In: LaMoreaux, J. (eds) Environmental Geology. Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8787-0_440

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