 The adjustment of the material toward this condition, which is produced in nature by the stresses due to gravity, may be called the isostatic adjustment. The compensation of the excess of matter at the surface (continents) by the defect of density below,...  Records of the Geological Survey of India - Page 137by Geological Survey of India - 1913Full view - About this book
 | Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington, D.C.) - Science - 1907 - 626 pages
...phrases which will be found useful and in defining them to add precision to our conception of isostasy. The adjustment of the material toward this condition,...the excess of matter at the surface (continents) by defect of density below, and of surface defect of matter (oceans) by excess of density below may be... | |
 | Association of Ontario Land Surveyors - Surveying - 1907 - 218 pages
...found 71 miles as the most probable value for the depth of compensation, that is, the depth at which the compensation of the excess of matter at the surface (continents) by defect of density below, and of surface defect of matter (oceans) by excess of matter below is complete.... | |
 | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, John Fillmore Hayford - Earth (Planet) - 1909 - 192 pages
...dense material. This particular condition of approximate equilibrium has been given the name isostasy. The adjustment of the material toward this condition,...produced in nature by the stresses due to gravity, may l1e called the isostatic adjustment. The compensation of the excess of matter at the surface (continents)... | |
 | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, William Bowie - Gravity - 1917 - 236 pages
...material. This particular condition of approximate equilibrium has been given the name "isostasy." The adjustment of the material toward this condition,...excess of matter at the surface (continents) by the deficiency of density below, and of surface deficiency of matter (oceans) by excess of density below,... | |
 | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey - 1917 - 226 pages
...material. This particular condition of approximate equilibrium has been given the name "isostasy." The adjustment of the material toward this condition,...excess of matter at the surface (continents) by the deficiency of density below, and of surface deficiency of matter (oceans) by excess of density below,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1918 - 522 pages
...depressed because it is composed of unusually dense material." " The adjustment of the material towards this condition, which is produced in nature by the...(continents) by the defect of density below, and of the surface defect of matter (oceans) by excess of density below, may be called the isostatic compensation."... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1918 - 506 pages
...depressed because it is composed of unusually dense material." " The adjustment of the material towards this condition, which is produced in nature by the...(continents) by the defect of density below, and of the surface defect of matter (oceans) by excess of density below, may be called the isostatic compensation."... | |
 | Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin - Electronic journals - 1911 - 808 pages
...work that several of the terms employed should be defined. DEFINITIONS "-Isostatic compensation' is the compensation of the excess of matter at the surface...(continents) by the defect of density below, and of the surface defect of matter (oceans) by excess of density below."1 "Isostatic compensation" will also... | |
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