| 单词 | eustasy |
| 释义 | eustasy —eustatic /yooh stat"ik/, adj. —eustatically, adv. /yooh"steuh see/, n. , pl. eustasies. Geol. any uniformly global change of sea level that may reflect a change in the quantity of water in the ocean, or a change in the shape and capacity of the ocean basins. Also, eustacy. [1945-50; nominalization of eustatic caused by eustasy ( < G eustatisch, coined by Austrian geologist Edward Suess (1831-1914); see EU-, STATIC), with -stasy for -stasis STASIS, prob. on the model of ECSTASY] |
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