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noun- Equilibrium or stability due to equality of pressure.

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Usage examples (15)
  • Hasterok, D., and D.S. Chapman, Continental thermal isostasy I: methods and sensitivity, J.
  • The dominant ones were tree rings, and ice cores, but others like varves, pollen, lichens, historic soil temperatures, sea level (eustasy), land levels (isostasy)...
  • 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...
  • 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...
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