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isostatic adjustment

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isostatic adjustment [¦ī·sə′stad·ik ə′jəs·mənt]


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Thus, the effects of hydride behavior at the contact between the mantle and carapace include all processes of global tectonics, volcanism, earthquakes, quiescent metasomatism, magmatism, isostatic adjustment, crustal heating, and polar wander.
Triple geospheres: oxidic carapace: hydridic mantle: ultimetal core by Hunt, Charles Warren / Frontier Perspectives
The official term for this is Isostatic Adjustments - basically, ever since the Ice Age the land has been adjusting to the loss of the weight of the ice sheet.
Why Britain's in front line of wild weather; EXCLUSIVE: BBC'S HELEN ... by Young, Helen / The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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