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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)...
- Lithospheric flexure (also called regional isostasy) is the process by which the lithosphere (rigid, thin outer layer of the Earth) bends under the action...
- subsidence of Earth's surface (Isostasy) Thermal-isostasy (temperature/density changes in Earth's interior) Local effect Glacio-isostasy (loading or unloading...
- depression. Post-glacial rebound and isostatic depression are phases of glacial isostasy (glacial isostatic adjustment, glacioisostasy), the deformation of the...
- greater buoyancy of the thicker, less dense continental crust (an example of isostasy). As a result, the continents form high ground surrounded by deep ocean...
- rift between blocks using the rheology of the layers and the forces of isostasy. Early bent plate models predicting fractures and fault movements have...
- sea level. But, as the ice melts, the land beneath will rebound through isostasy and ultimately rise above sea level.[citation needed] The largest and highest...
- interpretation Environment Protection Agency Sea level rise reports Properties of isostasy and eustasy Measuring Sea Level from Space Rising Tide Video: Scripps Institution...
- elevations or orography) to fixed landforms. However, given plate tectonics and isostasy, there is no system in which all geographic features are fixed. Yet the...
- continental drift/ Airy-Heiskanen isostasy hypothesis had many flaws and scarce data. The fixist/ Pratt-Hayford isostasy, the contracting Earth and the expanding...