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glacioisostasy

glacioisostasy noun: the adjustment of the lithosphere due to the formation or melting of glaciers and ice sheets.

Noun

glacioisostasy (uncountable)

  1. The adjustment of the lithosphere due to the formation or melting of glaciers and ice sheets.
    • It is assumed that glacioisostasy is the principal and virtually the only cause of oscillating movements of the earth's crust in regions with thick glaciers.1964, Soviet-bloc Research in Geophysics, Astronomy, and Space
    • It is now widely accepted that phenomena like glacioisostasy and hydroisostasy have produced a vertical deformation of the earth's crust in virtually all coastal areas over the last 20 ka.1997, R. W. G. Carter, C. D. Woodroffe, Coastal Evolution: Late Quaternary Shoreline Morphodynamics, →ISBN

Origin of glacioisostasy

From glacio- + isostasy.

Questions about glacioisostasy

What does glacioisostasy mean?
Glacioisostasy means the adjustment of the lithosphere due to the formation or melting of glaciers and ice sheets.
What part of speech is glacioisostasy?
Glacioisostasy is a noun.

Words near glacioisostasy in the dictionary

  1. glaciogenic
  2. glaciohydraulic
  3. glaciohydrologic
  4. glaciohydrological
  5. glaciohydrology
  6. glacioisostasy
  7. glacioisostatic
  8. glaciokarst
  9. glaciokarstic
  10. glaciokarsts
  11. glaciolacustrine

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