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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A uniform worldwide change in sea level.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a worldwide change in sea level, especially one caused by melting ice

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek εὖ (eu, "well, good") + Ancient Greek στάσις (stasis, "standing") (Wiktionary)
  2. From eustatic, of eustasy, from German eustatisch : eu- + stat(o)- + -isch, adj. suff. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “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

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