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flooded the spaces currently between those lands. He used the word eustasy and eustatic sea-level changes or "eustatic movements" ("eustatische Bewegungen") in 1888 which was translated into English in 1906. He considered the sinking of ocean basis for negative eustasis and the filling by sediments as cause for positive eustasis. He did not consider the idea that ice may have compressed the land below but noticed marine shorelines high above Norwegian fjords and suggested that the sea level may have been higher in the ice age. In his time it

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