How to pronounce“downwell”in English
Mantle material flows down next to the subducting slab, and is heated and returns to the surface some distance away.
But this vigorous downwelling of the mantle near to the subduction zone effectively sucks the whole of the crust downwards in this region,
and it’s enough to counteract and cancel out any uplift that happens due to crustal thickening.
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Definitions of “downwell”
To sink below material of lower density.
“Some of the northward-flowing waters turn eastward and enter the Throughflow sponge above 1300 m (Figure 5b), where they downwell and return to the interior and spread both to the south and the north (Figure 5c).”
To penetrate water downward.
“This measurement, as Region 4 stated, has been "commonly used to measure marine turbidity; it does not measure downwelling ambient light."”
A vertical shaft or well in which water flows downward.
“The proposed work includes enlarging the basin and installing downwells for percolation.”
Synonym of downwelling.
“Warm-water eddies are downwells and cold-water eddies facilitate vertical mixing rather than induce upwelling.”