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Isostasy & Eustasy
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The processes of isostasy and eustasy involve the dynamic adjustment of the earth’s lithosphere and hydrosphere over glaciation intervals. Isostasy is the crustal response to retain a buoyant equilibrium as a gravitational force working on a mass is exerted on the lithosphere, while an opposite force thrusts upward from the asthenosphere. Eustasy is the temporal transgression and regression of the mean sea level relative to the local terra firma.
ISOSTASY | EUSTASY |
Lithosphere & Mantle
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