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isostasy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Processes of isostasy involve the uplift of continental crusts including their shorelines.
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This flow is reflected in phenomena such as isostasy, post-glacial rebound and mantle plumes.
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Of course, given plate tectonics and isostasy, there is no system in which all geographic features are fixed.
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Known as isostasy, this phenomenon explains how the Mediterranean Sea was sealed off from the Atlantic Ocean five million years ago.
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A new glaciogeomorphological SE-NW diagonal profile through Tibet and its consequences for the glacial isostasy and Ice Age cycle.
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But Wegener only took action after reading a paper in Autumn 1911 and seeing that a flooded land-bridge contradicts isostasy.
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If the ice disappeared, Greenland would most probably appear as an archipelago, at least until isostasy lifted the land surface above sea level once again.
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When analyzing the morphology of marine terraces it must be considered, that both eustasy and isostasy can have an influence on the formation process.
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Both can promote surface uplift through isostasy as hotter, less dense, mantle rocks displace cooler, denser, mantle rocks at depth in the Earth.
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- (geology) a general equilibrium of the forces tending to elevate or depress the earth's crust
- Isostasy (Greek "equal", "standstill") is a term used in geology to refer to the state of gravitational equilibrium between the earth's lithosphere and asthenosphere such that the tectonic plates "float" at an elevation which depends on their thickness and density. ...
- The state of balance of the Earth's lithosphere floating on the magma
- The mechanism whereby areas of the crust rise or subside until the mass of their topography is buoyantly supported or compensated by the thickness of crust below, which "floats" on the denser mantle. The theory that continents and mountains are supported by low-density crustal "roots."
- Principle linking the stability and elevation of the Earth's crust to its density and thickness.
- A condition of hydrostatic equilibrium with the rigid part of the earth's crust floating on a denser and more mobile sublayer. ...
- Or isostatic rebound. the rising of a land surface following the removal of the enormous weight of glacial ice. ...
- The theoretical equilibrium that tends to exist in the Earth's crust; this can alter sea level on a local scale. For example, glacial ice can push down the crust so that when it melts the crust will uplift thus causing sea level in the area to decline. Compare with Eustasy.
- A state of equilibrium, resembling flotation, in which segments of Earth's crust float (on liquid mantle material) at levels determined by their thickness and density. Isostatic equilibrium is attained by flow of material in the mantle.
