Ocean Floor Sinking
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Ocean floor sinking. So much extra water is being added into the world s oceans from melting glaciers that the ocean floor is sinking underneath its increasing weight. Part of the wreckage of the rms titanic that lays about 4 000 meters below the surface of the north atlantic. That is not enough to protect coastal cities from rising sea levels but could mean existing. Climate change is sinking the ocean floor at a rate around 0 1 millimeters 0 004 inches per year.
Sprinkled across the ocean floor invisible from the surface are hundreds or maybe thousands of sink holes. The ocean floor is sinking under the water weight from melting glaciers and it s as bad as it sounds. This ocean floor deformation also means we have.