Meanings
- uncountablea change in sea level due to the uptake or release of water from glaciers and polar ice
Our data suggest that a large part of the regression associated with the deposition of the SS is not primarily controlled by glacioeustasy.
2006, G. Moratti, A. Chalouan, Tectonics of the Western Mediterranean and North Africa, →ISBN, page 3332 more examples
Subtidal, carbonate and carbonate-clastic symmetric cycles are interpreted to form when the long-term, tectonically driven eustasy prevails over glacioeustasy.
1995, R. J. Steel, Sequence Stratigraphy on the Northwest European Margin, →ISBNAsthensosphere 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.
2013, Michael J. Lace, John E. Mylroie, Coastal Karst Landforms, →ISBN, page 7
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