[Rockhounds] Giant ‘Gravity Hole’ in the Indian Ocean May Be the Ghost of an Ancient Sea

Paul etchplain at att.net
Sat Jul 1 17:20:05 PDT 2023


Giant ‘Gravity Hole’ in the Ocean May Be the Ghost of an Ancient Sea
A vast expanse of the Indian Ocean is a staggering 100 meters lower than
the global average sea level because of a major dip in Earth’s gravity.
Tom Metcalfe, ScientificAmerican, June 26, 2023
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/giant-gravity-hole-in-the-ocean-may-be-the-ghost-of-an-ancient-sea1/

The open access paper is:

Pal, D. and Ghosh, A., 2023. How the Indian Ocean geoid low was
formed. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(9), p.e2022GL102694.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2022GL102694

Yours,

Paul H.




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