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What does eustasy mean?

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Noun
  1. A worldwide change in sea level, especially one caused by melting ice or tectonic activity. [from 1940s]
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Such variables, on a shallow marine carbonate platform developed upon a passive margin, are essentially represented by eustasy, climate, subsidence and sedimentation rate.
Subtidal, carbonate and carbonate-clastic symmetric cycles are interpreted to form when the long-term, tectonically driven eustasy prevails over glacioeustasy.
During this period of initial flooding the new sea is sensitive to changes in climate and eustasy.
The development of the coastal province is controlled by eustasy and tectonics, whereas climate-related processes and tectonics control that of the interior plateau.
However, it must be noted that the global sea level fluctuations represent a combination of factors such as eustasy, subsidence and sediment supply.
Tectonics and eustasy were the two main controls on platform development.

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