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glacioeustasy

glacioeustasy noun: a change in sea level due to the uptake or release of water from glaciers and polar ice.

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
    • Our data suggest that a large part of the regression associated with the deposition of the SS is not primarily controlled by glacioeustasy.2006, G. Moratti, A. Chalouan, Tectonics of the Western Mediterranean and North Africa, →ISBN, page 333

Origin of glacioeustasy

From glacio- + eustasy.

Questions about glacioeustasy

What does glacioeustasy mean?
Glacioeustasy means a change in sea level due to the uptake or release of water from glaciers and polar ice.
What part of speech is glacioeustasy?
Glacioeustasy is a noun.

Words near glacioeustasy in the dictionary

  1. glaciochemistry
  2. glaciodepositional
  3. glaciodynamic
  4. glaciodynamically
  5. glaciodynamics
  6. glacioeustasy
  7. glacioeustatic
  8. glacioeustatically
  9. glacioeustatism
  10. glaciofluvial
  11. glaciofluviatile

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