post-glacial rebound
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rise of land masses that were depressed by the huge weight of ice sheets during the last glacial period
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It is catalogued under topics including Events in the geological history of Earth, Geodynamics and Geomorphology.
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- Rebounding beach, among other things (9404384095).jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
A model of present-day mass change due to post-glacial rebound and the reloading of the ocean basins with seawater. Blue and purple areas indicate rising due to the removal of the ice sheets. Yellow and red areas indicate falling as mantle material moved away from these areas in order to supply the rising areas, and because of the collapse of the forebulges around the ice sheets.
This layered beach at Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut is an example of post-glacial rebound after the last Ice Age. Little to no tide helped to form its layer-cake look. Isostatic rebound is still underway here.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “post-glacial rebound” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.