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Isostasy (Gr**** ísos 'equal', stásis 'standstill') or
isostatic equilibrium is the
state of
gravitational equilibrium between Earth's
crust (or lithosphere)...
- depression. Post-glacial
rebound and
isostatic depression are
phases of
glacial isostasy (glacial
isostatic adjustment, glacioisostasy), the
deformation of the...
- Lake
Bonneville was the
largest Late
Pleistocene paleolake in the
Great Basin of
western North America. It was a
pluvial lake that
formed in
response to...
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subsidence of Earth's
surface (
Isostasy) Thermal-
isostasy (temperature/density
changes in Earth's interior)
Local effect Glacio-
isostasy (loading or unloading...
- In geology,
lithospheric flexure (also
called regional isostasy) is the
process by
which the
lithosphere (rigid, thin
outer layer of the Earth)
bends under...
-
continental drift/ Airy-Heiskanen
isostasy hypothesis had many
flaws and
scarce data. The fixist/ Pratt-Hayford
isostasy, the
contracting Earth and the expanding...
- was an
eminent United States geodesist. His work
involved the
study of
isostasy and the
construction of a
reference ellipsoid for
approximating the figure...
- region.
Isostatic depression is a
phase of
glacial isostasy,
along with
isostatic rebound.
Glacial isostasy is the Earth's
response to
changing surface loads...
- the
geodesic anomaly,
which led to the
development of the
theories of
isostasy. The
native surveyors made use of in the Himalayas,
especially in Tibet...
- B. “
Isostasy and
Flexure of the Lithosphere.”
Department of
Earth Sciences,
Oxford University,
Cambridge Free
Press 2001. Watts, A. B. “
Isostasy and Flexure...
