Antarctica Has a 'Gravity Hole'

Antarctica’s 'Gravity Hole' Has Been Quietly Growing Stronger

Scientists aren't fully sure what this means for Antarctica's future, however.

Origins of ‘gravity hole’ over Antarctica finally unveiled

Researchers found that shifting gravity patterns may have encouraged the growth of Antarctica’s huge ice sheets

Antarctica has a 'gravity hole'

The geological oddity has existed since dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

Antarctica Has A Gravity Hole – And Now We Know How It Grew In Strength Over 30 Million Years Ago

It is the strongest gravity anomaly on Earth.

Under Antarctic ice, Earth’s deepest gravity “low” points to a 70-million-year story

A new study has reconstructed the evolution of the planet’s strongest nonhydrostatic geoid depression —the Antarctic Geoid Low (AGL)— finding that the feature has persisted for at least 70 million years and underwent a major shift in both position and strength between roughly 50 and 30 million years ago.

Earth's Strongest Gravity Anomaly Hides Under Antarctica, Not Where Scientists Thought

For decades, textbooks and science articles have pointed to the Indian Ocean as home to Earth's deepest geoid low, the term scientists use for depressions in the planet's gravitational equipotential surface. The post Earth’s Strongest Gravity Anomaly Hides Under Antarctica, Not Where Scientists Thought appeared first on StudyFinds.