Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by jiggawatts 200 days ago
Search for “post-glacial rebound” or “glacial isostatic adjustment”.

This has been thoroughly studied and is well known to geologists, especially in Northern Europe where changes can occur over human time scales.

I remember watching a documentary about a landslide disaster that occurred because clay saturated by salt water had lifted above sea level due to GIA and the fresh rainwater had washed the salt out. Clay without salt ions is more liquid and eventually moved catastrophically.

2 comments

Greatly appreciative of the intellectual verbiage guidance that will certainly lead me down a deeper rabbit hole for my interests. This HN site has been one of my greatest finds on all of the web and the knowledge I have learned and put to work from those here choosing to share such insight has forever changed me. Thanks again.

Stay Healthy!

Bang on.

.. and pretty much why I worded the first line of my comment above as I did.

Sea level changes, glacial retreats, etc will all change crustal pressures and impact the frequency, placement, and nauture of volcanic activity in times to come.

Not a lot of that in Ethiopa for now though (to the best of my current "haven't specifically looked at the map for this" gut feeling).

I thank you as well defrost, Keep cool or Stay warm whatever your objective is! :)