Isostasy is the balance in which the outer layers of the Earth float on the asthenosphere: at a depth in the mantle called the compensation depth, every column of rock of the same cross-section, from the surface down to that depth, has the same weight, whatever the relief above it.
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什么是 Isostasy; compensation depth?
又称: isostasy · compensation depth
A region is in isostasy, or isostatic equilibrium, when there exists a depth, the compensation depth, at which the pressure is the same at every point of the horizontal surface, whatever the relief above. Below the compensation depth the rocks behave as a fluid at rest; above it, the columns of crust and mantle float on them.