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  • Satellites Solve Mystery Of Low Gravity Over Canada

    05/11/2007 4:37:41 PM PDT · by blam · 29 replies · 1,893+ views
    New Scientist ^ | 5-10-2007 | Kelly Young
    Satellites solve mystery of low gravity over Canada 20:16 10 May 2007 NewScientist.com news service Kelly Young The GRACE satellites have detected changes in the gravitational field over regions of Canada that can be attributed to the crust bouncing back after the melting of a glacier 20,000 years ago and convection in Earth's mantle (Illustration: Science/M Tamisiea) If it seems Canadians weigh less than their American neighbours, they do – but not for the reasons you might think. A large swath of Canada actually boasts lower gravity than its surroundings. Researchers have puzzled for years over whether this was due...
  • Geologists Have Closely Analyzed Two Bizarre 'Blobs' Detected Deep Inside Earth

    03/11/2022 6:57:09 AM PST · by Red Badger · 71 replies
    https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 11 MARCH 2022 | CARLY CASSELLA
    Rotating 3D view of Earth's blobs. (Cottaar & Lekic/Geophysical Journal International, 2016) ********************************************************************************************* Earth's interior is not a uniform stack of layers. Deep in its thick middle layer lie two colossal blobs of thermo-chemical material. To this day, scientists still don't know where both of these colossal structures came from or why they have such different heights, but a new set of geodynamic models has landed on a possible answer to the latter mystery. These hidden reservoirs are located on opposite sides of the world, and judging from the deep propagation of seismic waves, the blob under the African continent...