The Earth Changes Shape: the Poles Gain Height and the Equator Sinks as the Thaw Advances
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One study points out that the redistribution of water bodies could be causing this phenomenon.
In the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, an interesting great work has come out that the shape of the Earth is gradually changing. A solid shell becomes less splintered at the poles and a gravitational form.
It may not seem like it, but the solid surface of the Earth, the soil we tread, is continually deformed. And it does so through a geophysical mechanism in which the crust, which is more elastic than we think, reacts and yields under enormous forces to then 'bounce' and recover when such loads disappear. Nowadays, scientists are able to accurately measure that deformation thanks to the precise global networks of stations of the Global Navigation …
The Earth's poles are rising and the equator is sinking at an ever-increasing pace, according to a study by a Greek scientist.
The Earth appears almost spherical when viewed from space, but its rotation means it has never been...More...
This is news that will give some cold sweats to the platists: not only is the Earth (about) round and its shape constantly changes. Worse, according to the angle under which it is looked at, it becomes both less flattened and more distorted.
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