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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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However, it must be noted that the global sea level fluctuations represent a combination of factors such as eustasy, subsidence and sediment supply.
Despite some datation uncertainties and the unknown durations of Lower Jurassic cycles, middle frequency sequences appear to be controlled by eustasy.
The wedge-shaped geometry, the thickness variation and the stacking pattern of the Guadagnolo succession are the response to eustasy and tectonic subsidence.
Such variables, on a shallow marine carbonate platform developed upon a passive margin, are essentially represented by eustasy, climate, subsidence and sedimentation rate.
This study demonstrates efficacy of interregional correlation of sea-level changes for resolution of the problem of the alternative views of the Jurassic eustasy.
Tectonics and eustasy were the two main controls on platform development.

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