Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In hydrostatic equilibrium from equality of pressure.
- Related to or produced in accordance with isostasy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physics & Geol.) Subjected to equal pressure from every side; being in hydrostatic equilibrium, as a body submerged in a liquid at rest; pertaining to, or characterized by, isostasy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
line of constantstress . - noun A state of
equilibrium between twoforces . - adjective Of or pertaining to
isostasy orisostatics
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Examples
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However, SE England is sinking by a process known as isostatic adjustment.
THE RISING TIDE.... 2009
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The process is known as isostatic rebound, or isostatic uplift.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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What happens and does happen over long periods of geologic time, we're still coming out of our last ice age, and as the ice melts from that, there is something called isostatic rebound I think is the technical term.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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The process is known as isostatic rebound, or isostatic uplift.
Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News 2010
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As the ice melted, the release of this enormous weight resulted in the landmass slowly tilting back up in the north or down in the south, a process called isostatic adjustment.
unknown title 2009
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He finds that the movements (termed isostatic) which geologists recognise as taking place deep in the Earth's crust, indicate an age of the same order of magnitude xi as that which is inferred from the statistics of denudative history. [
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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Earlier projections apparently failed to account for rebounding changes in the Earth's crust following the last Ice Age referred to as "glacial isostatic adjustment".
Hot Sensations Vs. Cold Facts Larry Bell 2010
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Earlier projections apparently failed to account for rebounding changes in the Earth's crust following the last Ice Age referred to as "glacial isostatic adjustment".
Hot Sensations Vs. Cold Facts Larry Bell 2010
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Right at the end of the last Ice Age, Earth experienced the greatest thrust of the glacial isostatic adjustment post-glacial rebound and its opposite effect.
‘Global Warming Causes Earthquakes.’ Suuuuure it does. | RedState 2010
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Earlier projections apparently failed to account for rebounding changes in the Earth's crust following the last Ice Age referred to as "glacial isostatic adjustment".
Hot Sensations Vs. Cold Facts Larry Bell 2010
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