Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A uniform worldwide change in sea level.
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- noun a
worldwide change insea level , especially one caused bymelting ice
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From eustatic, of eustasy, from German eustatisch : eu– + stat(o)– + -isch, adj. suff.]
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From Ancient Greek εὖ (eu, "well, good") + Ancient Greek στάσις (stasis, "standing")
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Examples
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The dominant ones were tree rings, and ice cores, but others like varves, pollen, lichens, historic soil temperatures, sea level (eustasy), land levels (isostasy) require similar audits.
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