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Viscosity of the Earth's Mantle
By (Author) Lawrence M. Cathles
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
551.116
Hardback
414
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
482g
Approximately 12,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, the three kilometers of ice that covered Canada, the large European glaciers in Fennoscandia and Siberia, and many other minor glaciers melted quickly. The resulting meltwaters increased the depth of the world's oceans by about 110 meters. The earth's response to this redistribution of