Usually means: Equilibrium of Earth's crustal buoyancy.
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  1. isostasy: Merriam-Webster
  2. isostasy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. isostasy: Collins English Dictionary
  4. isostasy: Vocabulary.com
  5. isostasy: Wordnik
  6. isostasy: Wiktionary
  7. isostasy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. isostasy: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. isostasy: Dictionary.com
  10. Isostasy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. isostasy: FreeDictionary.org
  12. isostasy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  13. isostasy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. isostasy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. isostasy: Encyclopedia

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  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  3. Isostasy: Extragalactic Astronomy

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  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See isostatic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (isostasy)

noun:  (geology) The state of balance or pressure equilibrium thought to exist within the Earth's crust, whereby the upper lithosphere floats on denser magma beneath.

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