Downeast Schoolhouse » news you can use http://downeastschoolhouse.com Education, bread, music, orneriness. In monstrous slabs. Irony in wee drams. Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:35:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 A Disturbance in the Force (Sudden Subduction) http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2010/03/a-disturbance-in-the-force-sudden-subduction/ http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2010/03/a-disturbance-in-the-force-sudden-subduction/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:00:18 +0000 admin http://downeastschoolhouse.com/?p=2527 The days are shorter now, and we wobble more.

Sudden subduction of the Nazca plate carried large amounts of mass closer to the center of the Earth — which, conceptually but on a vastly different scale, works like spinning skaters bringing their arms closer to their bodies, says Richard Gross, a geophysicist at NASA’s Jet [...]]]> http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2010/03/a-disturbance-in-the-force-sudden-subduction/feed/ 0