isostasy

• So both you and hank Roberts should be aware that since its modulus is a couple of orders of magnitude lower than that of an average silicate rock, a landward ice sheet flowing at tens of meters per year under its own weight will respond to local isostasy raising the land at a rate of millimeters per year by bending easily under the strain, not cracking off like a cleaved diamond. —  RealClimate
• But this load of sediments, transferred from the dry land to the ocean margins and shallow seas, disturbed the balance of weight (isostasy) which normally keeps the continental platforms above the level of the ocean basins (which as shown by gravity measurement are underlain by materials of higher specific gravity than the continents). —  Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections
• [1] The figure of the earth and isostasy from measurements in the U.S. Dept. of Commerce and Labor, 1909, p. 175. —  Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
• Pratt, Archdeacon, and isostasy, 53. —  The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays
• "… a landward ice sheet flowing at tens of meters per year under its own weight will respond to local isostasy raising the land at a rate of millimeters per year by bending easily under the strain, not cracking off like a cleaved diamond." —  RealClimate

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