Isostatic rebound

Minor intra-plate tectonics and isostatic rebound after glaciation have fractured the... 

In fact, in some regions, isostatic rebound can lead to a relative sea level fall. On a global scale, it appears that sea level has risen by 12 to 15 cm over the past century (Emery and Aubrey, 1991) this has primarily been attributed to thermal expansion of... 

Isostatic rebound the upward movement of the Earth s crust following isostatic depression. 

Fennoscandian Shield after the last glacial retreat (Nurmi et al., 1988 Lahermo and Dampen, 1987 Smellie and Wikberg, 1991). Such events in coastal areas under the right conditions, such as isostatic rebound, may be very common. With time, and uplift and freshwater infiltration, some or aU of these shallow emplaced seawaters may eventually be flushed from the rock mass. 

During the last million years the area has been subjected to several glaciations, the last of which (Weichselian Ice Age) ended 10" yr ago (Conner, 1995). It is estimated that the maximum thickness of the continental ice cover in the central part of the Fennoscandian Shield was 3 km some 2 X 10" yr ago. The weight of the ice depressed the underlying crust by up to 800 m at the center of the glaciated area (Niskanen, 1943 Mdrner, 1979). At Palmottu the depression was less, —300-400 m, but here the isostatic rebound... 

Bishop, P., and Brown, R., 1992, Denudational isostatic rebound of intraplate highlands the Lachlan River valley, Australia, Earth Surf. Proa Landforms 17 345-360. 

Gronlie, A., 1981. The late and postglacial isostatic rebound, the eustatic rise of the sea level and the uncompensated depression in the area of the Blue Road Geotraverse. Earth Evolution Science, 1, 50-57. 

Isostatic rebound 1) The unloading effect of melting and retreating ice sheets on the Earth s mantle and crust, resulting in local/regional land uplift. 2) A regional increase in Earth surface elevation due to removal of a large load of ice, rock, sediments, or ocean or lake water. 

In subsequent papers Stern and Baxter (2002) and Stem et al. (2005) emphasized the effectiveness of isostatic rebound in response to the erosion of deep... 

In temperate climates, 25% of peak elevations in mountain ranges can be created by isostatic rebound as a response to erosional incision. Significantly more relief generation and peak uplift are, however, possible for glacial erosion in a polar climate. 

Stem TA, Baxter AK, Barrett PJ (2005). Isostatic rebound due to glacial erosion within the Transantarctic Mountains. Geology 33(3) 221-224... 

In Northern Iceland, the Kerlingar normal fault runs subparallel to the Northern Volcanic Zone (NVZ), but east of the zone itself. It is an unusually long normal fault with throw down to the east and it is not parallel to the fissure swarms in the NVZ (Hjartardottir et al. 2010). Hjartardottir et al. (2010) suggests that the Kerlingar fault formed shortly after the late Pleistocene deglaciation due to isostatic rebound with differential movements between two adjacent crustal domains. 

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