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单词 isostatic rebound
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isostatic rebound
6. Geology. The upward movement of an area of the earth's crust in response to a relief of pressure, esp. following the retreat of ice sheets. Also isostatic rebound.
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1920 O. Ulrich in Jrnl. Washington Acad. Sci. 10 59 I believe also that in deglaciation the land surface largely re-established itself by elastic, or rather, isostatic rebound to preceding relief.
1941 Geogr. Jrnl. 97 99 The terraces and raised beaches along the fjords of Spitsbergen were not level but warped, and therefore indicative probably of only local isostatic ‘rebound’ following the waning of the Inland and Highland Ice.
1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 59 A great deal of reversal of the initial postglacial drainage has occurred, owing to the greater rebound in the northwest than in the southeast of Finland.
1991 R. S. K. Barnes & K. H. Mann Fund. Aquatic Ecol. (ed. 2) vi. 113/1 Postglacial isostatic adjustments (commonly known as glacial rebound) make it difficult to detect average changes in sea level.
2002 Hist. Scotl. Jan.–Feb. 15/1 These surveys ignore the localised effects of isostatic rebound (where the land rises after the removal of the weight of the overlying ice-sheet).
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