Meaning of glacioeustasy | Babel Free

Definitions

a change in sea level due to the uptake or release of water from glaciers and polar ice

uncountable

Examples

“Subtidal, carbonate and carbonate-clastic symmetric cycles are interpreted to form⟳ when the long-term, tectonically driven eustasy prevails over glacioeustasy.”

“Our data suggest⟳ that a large part of the regression associated with the deposition of the SS is not primarily controlled by glacioeustasy.”

“Asthensosphere adjustment effects in the mantle can extend⟳ far away from the site of ice loading, called “far field effects”, one of the reasons glacioeustasy effects are not exactly similar on all coasts world-wide.”

CEFR level