isostasy

How To Use isostasy In A Sentence

• The dominant ones were tree rings, and ice cores, but others like varves, pollen, lichens, historic soil temperatures, sea level (eustasy), land levels (isostasy) require similar audits. Merry Christmas « Climate Audit
• The figure of the earth and isostasy from measurements in the U.S. Dept. of Commerce and Labor, 1909, p. 175. 2. The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915
• Dipping an unsweetened madeleine into my coffee, I begin dictating my column, due later that hour, on the recent encyclical reaffirming the doctrine of isostasy (I approve). All Things Rich and Amiable: Another Day in the Life of Junior W. Buckeye
• There are a number of facts which support this so-called theory of isostasy, according to which the crust of the earth is not capable of sustaining any very great weight, though it may be at the outside rigid, but is itself essentially like a flexible membrane resting on a layer of viscous fluid. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
• But if the theory of isostasy is true, one would at first say that there could be no great accumulation through a geologic period of stresses which would finally yield in the shape of folded mountain ranges. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
• Using the isostatie response function technique, we have investigated the isostasy and crustal density structure of Panzhihua- Xichang region, which was supposed to contain a continental rift valley.
• We know from isostasy that the crust responds to changing load distributions on its surface by vertical movements.
• Changes in relative sea level driven by glacial isostasy may have provided an additional mechanism for deglaciation.
• We introduce the additional constraints of crustal isostasy to gravity models and the observations of the polarity of magnetic remanence within the lava pile to magnetic models.
• The thick portions of crust will attain a higher elevation because of isostasy.