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settlement3 CONSTRUCTSHuman settlementKOWALEWSKI · SETTLEMENTFoundation settlingSKEMPTON · SETTLEMENTSettlementRODRIGUEZ · MARINE ECOLOGY

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Geography and archaeology

A place where a community lives

A place where people establish and maintain a community and dwell together, ranging in scale from a hamlet or village to a town or city, together with the pattern such places form across a landscape. Stephen Kowalewski's 2008 review Regional Settlement Pattern Studies in the Journal of Archaeological Research surveyed how researchers map where past populations lived and how those locations cluster, grow, and shift over time. The referent is a physical place of human habitation, not an agreement ending a lawsuit, the closing of a trade, or the compression of soil under a foundation.[1]

Unit
One inhabited place, from a single hamlet to a city, or the pattern of many across a region
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Mapped by surveying site locations, sizes, and spacing, and dated from the material remains people left behind

Geotechnical engineering

Downward movement of a foundation as soil compresses

The gradual downward movement of a building's foundation as the soil beneath it compresses under the structure's weight, slowly squeezing water and air out of the ground. Skempton and MacDonald's 1956 The Allowable Settlements of Buildings in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers set limits on how much settlement, and especially how much uneven or differential settlement, a building can take before it cracks. The referent is the physical sinking of a structure into the earth, measured in millimetres, not a legal agreement, a place people live, or the closing of a financial trade.[2]

Unit
The downward displacement of a foundation, in millimetres, uniform or differential across the structure
Recovery means
Partly: some elastic rebound occurs if the load is removed, but consolidation settlement is largely permanent
Measured by
Measured by precise levelling of survey points over time and predicted from soil consolidation tests

Marine ecology

the move of marine invertebrate larvae from the plankton to life on the seabed, where they attach and begin metamorphosis.

In marine ecology, settlement refers to the move of marine invertebrate larvae from the plankton to life on the seabed, where they attach and begin metamorphosis. This meaning comes from Rodriguez (1993) in Marine Ecology Progress Series.[3]

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References

  1. Kowalewski, S. A. (2008). Regional settlement pattern studies. Journal of Archaeological Research, 16(3), 225-285. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-008-9020-8
  2. Skempton, A. W., & MacDonald, D. H. (1956). The allowable settlements of buildings. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 5(6), 727-768. https://doi.org/10.1680/ipeds.1956.12202
  3. Rodriguez, S., Ojeda, F., & Inestrosa, N. (1993). Settlement of benthic marine invertebrates. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 97, 193-207. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps097193

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