Isostasy in a sentence as a noun

This equilibrium is called isostasy[1], which is more or less Archimedes' principle[2] applied to the earth. It's basically happenstance that the volume of water on earth is enough to just barely overtop the ocean basin.

I have a sneaking suspicion that if you could mine all the material for those Tsar Bombas in the same place, isostasy would give you equal or greater response from the plate, but I'm not going to do those equations right now.

Isostasy definitions

noun

(geology) a general equilibrium of the forces tending to elevate or depress the earth's crust