Sentences with phrase «earth crust deformations»
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The world's smallest spectrometer has successfully measured tiny deformations of Earth's crust, of the order of one millimeter, over a length of one thousand kilometers.
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Japan's earthquake - monitoring network includes 1,200 GPS sensors that track the deformation of the Earth's crust to help researchers measure and locate the buildup of seismic strain, but these devices do not work underwater.
«We found that the Antarctic ice sheet had an uneven effect on the global sea level because its growth resulted in a complex interplay between gravitational and rotational effects and the deformations to Earth's crust caused by ice advance and retreat,» he says.
However the deformation of the solid Earth by ice sheet loading is so extensive that both the elastic crust and plastic mantle are involved.