concept of isostasy by pratt
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In isostasy. The Pratt hypothesis, developed by John Henry Pratt, English mathematician and Anglican missionary, supposes that Earth's crust has a uniform thickness below sea level with its base everywhere supporting an equal weight per unit area at a depth of compensation.
Pratt model A model for the lithosphere that accounts for isostatic anomalies by assuming there is a level of compensation that lies at a constant depth everywhere. Below the level of compensation all rocks have the same density, but above it density decreases as topographic elevation increases.
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