Meaning of stillstand | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A period of time during which the terminus of a glacier remains stationary.
2. A period of geologic time during which eustatic sea level stays apparently constant, relative to adjacent periods of geologic time, neither characterized by transgression, nor regression.
3. A standstill.
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Examples

“A useful exercise may be to calculate⟳ the basin-wide deglacial erosion rate for the Jakobshavn catchment area using the volume of glacimarine sediments deposited in front of the fjord-mouth sill (29.2 km3) during an 800 year stillstand (Hogan et al., 2012) and a glacial catchment area derived using the same procedures in this study⟳ (33 504 km2; Fig. S1b).”

“Repeated bathymetric measurements adjacent to the LeConte glacier terminus offer⟳ a rare view⟳ into the evolution of a morainal bank on interannual time scales during a stillstand, starting immediately after a rapid glacier retreat.”

“A relative stillstand of sea level is an apparently constant position of sea level with respect⟳ to the underlying initial surface of deposition, and is indicated by coastal toplap. It may result⟳ if both sea level and the underlying initial surface of deposition actually remain⟳ stationary, or if both rise⟳ or fall⟳ at the same rate.”

“More generally, regressive sedimentary episodes often correlate with widespread stratigraphic gaps implying erosion or non-deposition. Such facts imply a sea-level fall⟳ rather than a stillstand combined with sedimentary infill. Without such periodic falls it is difficult to understand⟳ why the successive phases of transgression did not extend⟳ much further than areal plots of marine deposits indicate⟳.”

“The results show⟳ that shelf morphology in a far-field site, such as a South Atlantic continental margin, exhibits morphological evidences indicating a stillstand during YD, characterized by the configuration of distinct coastal systems (lagoons, estuaries, barrier islands and potential fringing reefs), followed by a rapid sea-level rise⟳ that drowned and preserved the morphology of these coastal features.”

“As with the tide, swell'd up unto its height , That makes a still-stand, running neither way”

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