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31Franz Kossmat — ( 22 August 1871 in Vienna ndash; 1 December 1938 in Leipzig) was an Austrian German geologist, for twenty years the director of the Geological Survey of Saxony under both the kingdom and the subsequent German Republic.Kossmat was professor of… …
32Erde, Erdmessung [2] — Erde, Erdmessung . In zwei Veröffentlichungen aus letzter Zeit [1] und [2], hat Helmert die in der Tabelle S. 245 enthaltenen, aus den neueren großen Gradmessungen berechneten Werte der Abmessungen des Erdellipsoids mitgeteilt. Die Werte von a… …
33plate tectonics — plate tectonic, adj. Geol. a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates, each of which moves on the plastic asthenosphere more or less independently to collide with, slide under, or move past… …
34Dutton, Clarence Edward — ▪ American geologist born May 15, 1841, Wallingford, Conn., U.S. died Jan. 4, 1912, Englewood, N.J. American geologist and pioneer seismologist who developed and named the principle of isostasy. According to this principle, the level of the …
35Hayford, John Fillmore — ▪ American engineer and geodesist born May 19, 1868, Rouses Point, N.Y., U.S. died March 10, 1925, Evanston, Ill. American civil engineer and early geodesist who established the theory of isostasy. Hayford s theory assumes that there… …
36Marine terrace — A marine terrace, coastal terrace[1], raised beach or perched coastline is a relatively flat, horizontal or gently inclined surface of marine origin[2], mostly an old abrasion platform which has been lifted out of the sphere of wave activity… …
37Mountain formation — Thrust and reverse fault movement are an important component of mountain formation. Mountain formation refers to the geological processes that underlie the formation of mountains. These processes are associated with large scale movements of the… …
38Хейфорд, Джон Филлмор — Джон Филлмор Хейфорд John Fillmore Hayford …
39Isostatic — I so*stat ic, a. [Iso + static.] (Physics & Geol.) Subjected to equal pressure from every side; being in hydrostatic equilibrium, as a body submerged in a liquid at rest; pertaining to, or characterized by, isostasy. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …
40isostatic — adjective see isostasy …
