Stillstand

Quick meaning: Stillstand is a noun meaning (geology) A period of time during which the terminus of a glacier remains stationary.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (geology) To cease in either glacial advance or retreat.
2. (geology) 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. (obsolete) A standstill.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

It is tempting in these circumstances to look for the 'smoking gun'-a mechanism whereby glaciers from both the local Cairngorm ice cap, and the much larger Scottish Ice Sheet could stillstand, or even readvance for a period of 1 kyr, during deglaciation.

Word Forms

• stillstands
• stillstanding
• stillstanded

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lowstand, stade, glacier, glaciation, freeze-up, glaciarium.

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