All articles tagged with #mass redistribution
A 2007 anomaly in Earth's gravity field over the eastern Atlantic, detected by satellites, suggests a deep mantle phase change in mineral structure near the core-mantle boundary, possibly linked to a geomagnetic jerk, indicating significant mass redistribution deep within the planet rather than surface activity.
Human construction of nearly 7,000 dams over the past 200 years has caused the Earth's poles to shift by about three feet due to mass redistribution, affecting the planet's rotation and sea levels, highlighting the need to consider dam water storage in future sea level rise predictions.
NASA research suggests that the massive water reservoir of China's Three Gorges Dam has a measurable, though tiny, effect on Earth's rotation by shifting mass toward the equator, highlighting how large-scale infrastructure can influence planetary physics.