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glacio-eustasy

glacio-eustasy is the alternative form of glacioeustasy.

Meaning of glacioeustasy

Noun

glacioeustasy (uncountable)

  1. a change in sea level due to the uptake or release of water from glaciers and polar ice
    • Subtidal, carbonate and carbonate-clastic symmetric cycles are interpreted to form when the long-term, tectonically driven eustasy prevails over glacioeustasy.1995, R. J. Steel, Sequence Stratigraphy on the Northwest European Margin, →ISBN

Questions about glacio-eustasy

What is glacio-eustasy the alternative form of?
Glacio-eustasy is the alternative form of glacioeustasy.

Words near glacio-eustasy in the dictionary

  1. glacify
  2. glacifying
  3. glacigenic
  4. glacimarine
  5. glacio-
  6. glacio-eustasy
  7. glacio-eustatic
  8. glacio-fluvial
  9. glacio-hydro-isostatic
  10. glacioaquatic
  11. glacioaqueous

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