Sunday 3 March 2013

Your Questions About Compensation Stress

Steven asks…Can subsidence of oceanic lithosphere affect how Earth's crust looks?I have to answer questions on a detailed outline for my earth science class, and some of them require research on the internet. This is one of them i had no luck searching for, and I was wondering if anyone knew. Thank you,

-Gunnaradmin answers:You should try looking up isostatic compensation of the lithosphere.

In the simplest example, isostasy is the principle of

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