isostatic
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“Mount Everest and its neighbouring peaks are growing because the isostatic rebound is raising them up faster than erosion is wearing them down,” fellow co-author of the study Dr Matthew Fox told the BBC.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2024
But when this began to melt 9,600 years ago, the land began to rise in a process called isostatic rebound.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2017
Also, note that crustal depression has also occurred in adjacent regions as subcrustal material displaced by isostatic lowering from the weight of the ice has flowed back in under the rebound.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
The lithosphere can move vertically as a result of two main processes, tectonics, and isostatic rebound.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
If such changes should take place rapidly, great thicknesses of sediment might be concentrated in certain areas in a short time, thus disturbing the isostatic adjustment of the earth's crust.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington
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