Loss of Water During California Drought Caused Sierra Nevada to Rise: Study

NBC Bay Area ^ | 12/13

[nickcarraway]

A new NASA study says loss of water from rocks during California's historic drought caused the Sierra Nevada to rise nearly an inch in height from October 2011 to October 2015.

The study also found that in the following two years of increased snow and rain, the rocks in the range regained about half as much water as was lost during the drought and the height of the mountains has fallen about half an inch.

Research leader Donald Argus of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is discussing the study Wednesday at an American Geophysical Union conference in New Orleans.

The study suggests significantly more water was lost from cracks and soil within fractured mountain rock during drought and gained during heavy precipitation than hydrology models show.

[SandRat]

Mother Natures way of showing Al Gore is CRAY

[itsahoot]

This is idiotic. The mountains are on tectonic plates, that float on a molten inner earth. So do the mean relative to the other floating plates or surrounding areas of the same plate? Or do they mean the ocean level that constantly rises and falls? And the ocean that is literally never stable being driven by wind, currents, and even the pull of the moon each day.

Ever wonder how all those monoliths remain accurately aligned with the stars, since the plates are always moving?

[itsahoot]

I guess “dreamers” would be the right word...dreamers with mental problems.

But with taxing power. 🤡

[NativeSon]

Changes in the Earth’s rotation (slowing) at some point, reduced the equatorial bulge, putting pressure on the mantle.

[onedoug]

Isostatic equilibrium. Possible, but I’d need more data.

[DesertRhino]

They don’t, at least not to within a measurable inch of accuracy. They appear the same to us, even using our instruments. But i assure you, the monoliths are not always perfectly and permanently aligned with the stars.

[Bernard Marx]

Most education appears to have become indoctrination, even the sciences.

Totally agree but I'm really concerned about lack of education in the earth sciences. If introductory geology courses were required there'd be no debate about human-caused global warming/climate change. Evidence to the contrary is in the rocks.

[Keyhopper]

I made a volcano that flowed lava when you poured baking soda in

[Wuli]

I imagine - if all that is true - it has some impact on seismic behavior in California. All that water is a lot of weight & loss of so much water represents a loss of a lot of weight. It must impact plate movements somewhat.

[Bernard Marx]

Well yippee-skip!

[rolling_stone]

I saw a documentary called The treasure of the Sierra Madre.

i saw that too i remember the documentary part about the FBI - badges we don’t need no stinking badges...