Subsidence
Slow shifting downward of the Earth's crust into ridges where high thickness of sediments mount. Subsidence can be either tectonic (when the crustal slimming is at the origin of the sedimentary basin) or thermal (consequently to orogenesis, the mountain retracts when cooling and collapse – thermal relaxation).
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