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English: This building in Mexico City was built on piles to prevent it from settling into the soft lakebed deposits. The underlying aquifer has compacted beneath the building and the building appears to be “rising” out of the ground. Mexico City is one of the few subsidence areas where this effect is observed |
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| Source | http://www.geotimes.org/july01/sinking_titanic_city.html |
| Author | USGS |
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This image is in the public domain in the United States because it only contains materials that originally came from the United States Geological Survey, an agency of the United States Department of the Interior. For more information, see the official USGS copyright policy.
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| 15:05, 19 February 2007 | 350 × 235 (33,816 bytes) | w:en:Zeizmic (talk | contribs) | USGS picture found at [http://www.geotimes.org/july01/sinking_titanic_city.html] |
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| current | 12:35, 25 March 2017 | | 350 × 235 (33 KB) | Josve05a | Transferred from en.wikipedia: see original upload log above |
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