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  • Mysterious Shift in Earth's Gravity Suggests Equator is Bulging

    08/01/2002 3:13:16 PM PDT · by RightWhale · 107 replies · 651+ views
    space.com ^ | 1 Aug 02 | Robert Roy Britt
    Mysterious Shift in Earth's Gravity Suggests Equator is Bulging By Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer posted: 02:00 pm ET 01 August 2002 Something strange has been going on under our feet for the past four years. Earth's gravity field suddenly shifted gears and began getting flatter, reversing a course of centuries during which the planet and its gravity field grew rounder each year. The scientists who noticed the change and report it in the Aug. 2 issue of the journal Science suspect Earth itself may be flattening out, with the oceans rising near the equator, but they aren't...
  • As Ice Melts, Antarctic Bedrock Is On The Move (Updated methods invalidate computer models)

    12/15/2008 5:25:03 PM PST · by saganite · 18 replies · 1,152+ views
    Science Daily ^ | Dec. 15, 2008 | staff
    As ice melts away from Antarctica, parts of the continental bedrock are rising in response -- and other parts are sinking, scientists have discovered. snip Before POLENET and its more spatially limited predecessors, scientists had few direct measurements of the bedrock. They had to rely on computer models, which now appear to be incorrect. "When you compare how fast the earth is rising, and where, to the models of where ice is being lost and how much is lost -- they don't match," Wilson said. "There are places where the models predict no crustal uplift, where we see several millimeters...