Relating to or characterized by very slow earth movements or crustal deformation.
From Greek 'brady-' (slow) and 'seismos' (earthquake), with adjectival suffix '-al'. This describes the nature of gradual tectonic movements.
Greenland's ground is slowly rising in a bradyseismal process—it's rebounding from the weight of ice sheets that melted 10,000 years ago, a delayed geological response.
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