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glacial isostatic adjustment: a standalone construct

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glacial isostaticadjustment1 CONSTRUCTGlacial isostaticPELTIER · GLACIOLOGY

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Glaciology

the ongoing deformation of the solid Earth and change in gravity as it responds to the loading and unloading of ice-age ice sheets.

In glaciology, glacial isostatic adjustment refers to the ongoing deformation of the solid Earth and change in gravity as it responds to the loading and unloading of ice-age ice sheets. This meaning comes from Peltier (2004) in Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences.[1]

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  1. Peltier, W. R. (2004). Global glacial isostasy and the surface of the ice-age Earth: The ICE-5G (VM2) model and GRACE. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 32(1), 111-149. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.earth.32.082503.144359

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