News tagged with glacial isostatic adjustment
Unexpected earthquakes within continental plates pose challenges
Earthquakes that occur on "passive" continental margins, such as the August 2011 magnitude 5.8 Mineral, Virginia, earthquake, surprise people because they expect earthquakes to occur only on plate boundaries. But, in fact, ...
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Mar 19, 2012 |
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NASA uses new method to estimate earth mass movements
NASA and European researchers have conducted a novel study to simultaneously measure, for the first time, trends in how water is transported across Earth's surface and how the solid Earth responds to the retreat ...
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Sep 14, 2010 |
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Climate: New study slashes estimate of icecap loss
Estimates of the rate of ice loss from Greenland and West Antarctica, one of the most worrying questions in the global warming debate, should be halved, according to Dutch and US scientists.
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Sep 07, 2010 |
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'Gravity is climate' - 10 years of climate research satellites GRACE
For the first time, the melting of glaciers in Greenland could now be measured with high accuracy from space. Just in time for the tenth anniversary of the twin satellites GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate ...
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Mar 16, 2012 |
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