The Sea Floor Is Sinking

Researchers propose a new more accurate method instead.

The sea floor is sinking.

The enormous mass that gets added to the ocean is causing the sea floor to warp sink and deform. Such zones would include the. This idea played a pivotal role in the development of the theory of plate tectonics which revolutionized geologic thought during the last quarter of the 20th century. As a result scientists have underestimated how much sea levels are rising by.

The results show that the ocean is changing in ways we didn t realize and is sinking further into the earth s crust. The first study to calculate how much the ocean floor is sinking due to the extra weight of meltwater going into the sea has been. The ocean floor is sinking under the weight of climate change and calculations to determine sea level rise don t take that fact into equation. This map shows gravity anomalies in the western indian ocean.

A sinking floor is usually a sign that the floor has begun to rot out from the underside meaning the joists or other elements of the subfloor have failed. Seafloor spreading theory that oceanic crust forms along submarine mountain zones and spreads out laterally away from them. Satellite data enables scientists to map the seafloor which is sinking under the weight of rising seas.