isostasy

NOUN
  1. (geology) a general equilibrium of the forces tending to elevate or depress the earth's crust
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  • The dominant ones were tree rings, and ice cores, but others like varves, pollen, lichens, historic soil temperatures, sea level (eustasy), land levels (isostasy) require similar audits. Merry Christmas « Climate Audit
  • The thick portions of crust will attain a higher elevation because of isostasy.
  • This approach is based on assumptions of local isostasy, thermal steady state, and constant density beneath the level of compensation.
  • But this load of sediments, transferred from the dry land to the ocean margins and shallow seas, disturbed the balance of weight (isostasy) which normally keeps the continental platforms above the level of the ocean basins (which as shown by gravity measurement are underlain by materials of higher specific gravity than the continents). Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections
  • Three main processes are essential to the understanding of mechanisms of large-scale subsidence and uplift: thermal perturbations of the lithosphere, isostasy (mass balancing), and flexure.
  • Hasterok, D., and D.S. Chapman, Continental thermal isostasy I: methods and sensitivity, J. Underground Problems with Mann-Holes « Climate Audit
  • The conception of crustal isostasy produces a great effect to the geo-scientific research; especially take an important role in the studies of Geodesy and Geodynamics.
  • The calculation shows that the increase of heat gradient, over the depth of isostasy, will cause the negative gravity anomaly.
  • The calculation shows that the increase of heat gradient, over the depth of isostasy, will cause the negative gravity anomaly.
  • [1] The figure of the earth and isostasy from measurements in the U.S. Dept. of Commerce and Labor, 1909, p. 175. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
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