eustasy

Definitions


[ˈjuːstəsi], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a change of sea level throughout the world, caused typically by movements of parts of the earth's crust or melting of glaciers


Phrases:

Origin:
1940s: back-formation from eustatic, coined in German from Greek eu ‘well’ + statikos ‘static’




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