stillstand

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A period of time during which the terminus of a glacier remains stationary.

   • Repeated bathymetric measurements adjacent to the LeConte glacier terminus offer a rare view into the evolution of a morainal bank on interannual time scales during a stillstand, starting immediately after a rapid glacier retreat.
2. 2

   A period of geologic time during which eustatic sea level stays apparently constant,…

   A period of geologic time during which eustatic sea level stays apparently constant, relative to adjacent periods of geologic time, neither characterized by transgression, nor regression.

3. 3

   A standstill.

   • As with the tide, swell'd up unto its height , That makes a still-stand, running neither way
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   1. 4

      To cease in either glacial advance or retreat.

      • The base of the stratigraphic successions consists of outwash fan deposits emplaced in the early deglaciation when ice margin stillstanded immediately beyond the depositional area.
      • Ice-contact depositional systems formed when the LIS was stillstanding along the Québec North Shore.

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