This map shows gravity anomalies in the western indian ocean.
The sea floor is sinking.
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.
As a result scientists have underestimated how much sea levels are rising by.
Such zones would include the.
If the sea floor is sinking are we safe from sea level rise.
The results show that the ocean is changing in ways we didn t realize and is sinking further into the earth s crust.
This theory proposes that the plates are dragged apart by the sinking of cold dense slabs of sea floor along zones of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
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.
The enormous mass that gets added to the ocean is causing the sea floor to warp sink and deform.
Researchers propose a new more accurate method instead.
Seafloor spreading theory that oceanic crust forms along submarine mountain zones and spreads out laterally away from them.
This can disguise the actual rise of sea levels in many parts of the planet and actually cover up.