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1901 Geogr. Jrnl. 18 517 The elevation of the land caused an ice-sheet to form gradually over it until the surface was depressed, isostatically, by the weight of accumulated ice.

1924 J. G. A. Skerl tr. A. Wegener Orig. Continents & Oceans xi. 160 It [sc. the map] shows us immediately the mass-defect under mountain chains through which the latter are isostatically compensated.

1925 J. Joly Surface-hist. Earth x. 170 The final buoyancy effect would ultimately force upwards, isostatically, the bent and folded masses.

1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 8 The rebound of the southern part of the recently deglaciated Scandinavia, which rose isostatically more rapidly than the post-glacial eustatic rise in sea level.

1960 New Scientist 19 May 1278/3 Considerable local departures from isostatic equilibrium are known, but an area forming a considerable fraction of a continent is in general found to be isostatically compensated.

1969 Nature 21 June 1120/1 Continents and continental margins respond isostatically to pressure variations of ten bars or less.

1960 Times Rev. Industry Feb. 24/2 Silicon nitride..powder may be formed to the required shape by..slip casting, or pressing either in steel dies, or isostatically in a thin walled rubber sac.

1972 McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. & Technol. 332/2 The table shows a comparison of some of the properties achieved by hot isostatically pressed alloys compared to those of cast products of the same composition.