Isostatic depression

The Earth's asthenosphere acts viscoelastically, flowing when exposed to loads and non-hydrostatic stress, such as ice sheets, for an extended period of time.

However, due to deglaciation induced by climate change, the regions near the shrinking ice sheet have begun to uplift, a process known as post-glacial rebound.

Modeling these glacial isostatic adjustments has been an area of interest for some time now as the entire topography of Greenland is affected by these movements.

[1] These movements are unique in that they can be observed on a human time scale unlike other geological processes.

Models have been created to assess what future equilibrium states of the Greenland ice sheet will look like.