Geography A-Level
Isostatic change
What Isostatic change means in Geography A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Isostatic change
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Reference: AQA
A localised adjustment of land height, such as the post-glacial rebound occurring in northern Britain following the melting of Pleistocene ice sheets.
Topics that use Isostatic change
- Coastal landscape development (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Climate change
- Coastal deposition
- Coastlines of emergence
- Environmental vulnerability
- Eustatic change
- Geological structure and lithology
- Geomorphological processes
- Landscape evolution over time
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