eustasy

eustasy
eustatic /yooh stat"ik/, adj.eustatically, adv.
/yooh"steuh see/, n., pl. eustasies. Geol.
any uniformly global change of sea level that may reflect a change in the quantity of water in the ocean, or a change in the shape and capacity of the ocean basins.
Also, eustacy.
[1945-50; nominalization of eustatic caused by eustasy ( < G eustatisch, coined by Austrian geologist Edward Suess (1831-1914); see EU-, STATIC), with -stasy for -stasis STASIS, prob. on the model of ECSTASY]

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