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To: Snowshoe who wrote (59361)1/24/2005 8:45:40 PM
From: Taikun  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
"However some of the floating Antarctic ice shelves have receded, but this would not cause a change in pressure."

You can't prove this.

I wanted to backup my original statement, that melting of polar ice and ice caps may take enough pressure off the plant to alter its shape.

As the shape alters, the plates move. That may cause earthquakes.

I have read that the polar ice caps put pressure on the poles-floating or not-and contribute to the shape of the earth. As the earth goes through its orbit, gravity keeps earth on its circuit, but the weight of the ice caps pushes down on the top and bottom of the earth, altering its shape.

The science I have read says floating or not, the ice caps exert pressure. Here:

Ice caps at the time, more than 10,000 years ago, were so massive that they actually squished the Earth from the "top and bottom."

ecology.com
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