Steve Allen said:
> In brief, the ice load caused the mantle to flow toward the equator.
> Lately it has been flowing back from the United States toward Canada,
> from central Asia toward Siberia. So the earth as ice skater is
> pulling its arms in as it gets less oblate.
Thanks. That makes sense
On Thu 2005-01-27T07:45:33 +, Peter Bunclark hath writ:
> I guess the ice melted, flowed into the oceans and the whole planet is
> closer to hydrostatic equilibrium. The crustal rebound must have a
> counterpart in ocean-basin depressing (since presumably magma is an
> uncompres
I guess the ice melted, flowed into the oceans and the whole planet is
closer to hydrostatic equilibrium. The crustal rebound must have a
counterpart in ocean-basin depressing (since presumably magma is an
uncompressible liquid).
Pete.
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
> Mar
their law books,
Actually, UK law is clear that civil time is GMT/GMT+1.
Last night I found myself talking to a UK legislator on the matter of UTC
versus GMT. We got as far as the quadratic nature of the TAI-UT1
difference, and that it was smaller than expected because - according to my
reading - of
