: the sinking of part of the roof of a magma chamber usually involving downward movement along circumferential faults
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cauldron subsidence noun (geology)
The subsidence of a cylindrical mass of the Earth's crust, bounded by a circular fault up which the lava has usu risen to fill the cauldron
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Main Entry: ↑cauldron
Useful english dictionary. 2012.