Isobase

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A line drawn on a map or chart connecting places of equal or constant land upheaval or subsidence.

    "Assuming their zero isobase and assuming also that they have correctly identified the beaches, the Jamieson hypothesis is decidedly not favored by their field observations."

  2. 2
    a line drawn on a map or chart connecting places of equal or constant land upheaval. wordnet

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"Assuming their zero isobase and assuming also that they have correctly identified the beaches, the Jamieson hypothesis is decidedly not favored by their field observations."

Etymology

From iso- + base?

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