Wednesday 14 May 2014

Ice-loss moves the Earth 250 miles down

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Ice-loss moves the Earth 250 miles down
Newcastle UK (SPX) May 14, 2014 - At the surface, Antarctica is a motionless and frozen landscape. Yet hundreds of miles down the Earth is moving at a rapid rate, new research has shown. The study, led by Newcastle University, UK, and published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, explains for the first time why the upward motion of the Earth's crust in the Northern Antarctic Peninsula is currently taking place so quick ... more


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