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Scientists found a major flaw in how sea levels are measured

One of the basic reference points in coastal science has been less reliable than many researchers assumed. A growing body of work now shows that sea-level estimates can drift off course when ...
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There's a “Gravity Hole” in the Indian Ocean, and Scientists Just Figured Out Why

In 1948, Dutch geophysicist Felix Andries Vening Meinesz was sailing the planet on a gravity survey when he discovered an anomaly in the Indian Ocean. It was a circular depression in the ocean floor ...
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Earth's "gravity hole" off the Indian coasts has finally been explained. Maybe

Bottom line: There's a well-known "hole" in Earth's gravity field just off India's coastline, known as the Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL). A new study is providing a potential explanation for this ...