Sentences with phrase «isostatic loading»
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Isostatic or Isostasy - Isostasy refers to the way in which the lithosphere and mantle respond visco - elastically to changes in surface loads.
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A, G., J. Wahr, and S. Zhong (2013) «Computations of the viscoelastic response of a 3 - D compressible Earth to surface loading: an application to Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in Antarctica and Canada», Geophys.
1) tectonics — earthquakes and slow seismic events 2) erosion / sedimentation 3) isostatic rebound — response to a change in surface load (such as the removal of an ice sheet or deposition or removal of sediment)
Changes in land elevation may occur in response to many processes, including mountainbuilding (tectonic) processes, or flow or bending of rocks caused by ongoing or past changes in loading from ice, water or sediment (isostatic changes).
Calculate the rate of isostatic sinking of the Pacific Ocean floor resulting from post LGM loading by water, the rate of compensatory land level rise, the rate of gravitationally - induced sea level rise and sea level changes from morphological changes to the ocean floor.