Re: Dynamic Planet B/C
Posted: November 17th, 2018, 8:26 am
What is the name of the current epoch?
Holocene?
Sounds right...linzhiyan wrote:Holocene?
Cordilleran merged with Laurentide at continental divide
Isn't this more of a Fermi Questioncacodemon wrote:In 2002, a volume of roughly 7.15 x 10^5 km^3 rapidly disintegrated from the Larsen B sector of the Larsen Ice Shelf.Cordilleran merged with Laurentide at continental divide
By how much did sea level rise due to this event only? The density of ice is 917 kg/m^3 and density of water is 997 kg/m^3.
1.827 meters...basically I used d=m/v to find out the mass of the ice since we had its volume and density, and then using that mass, I found out the volume of water that would take up. Then, I set that volume equal to the surface area of Earth's oceans x a variable for height, to solve for the height that volume would take up if spread over all of Earth's oceans.
That's right!SciolyHarsh wrote:The grounding line is the point at which the ice shelf starts to float on the water. This is only for tidewater glaciers iirc. Hopefully my answer is correct.
Question: Suppose a large area of continent consists of 30 km of Earth’s crust with a density of 2.6 Mg/m³ over 90 km of material with a density of 3.0 Mg/m³. The asthenosphere density is 3.3 Mg/m³. This region is covered with a 1.5 km thickness of ice of density 0.9 Mg/m³ and is assumed to be in isostatic equilibrium. If the ice melts, how much will the surface of the continent change once isostatic equilibrium is re-established? Answer in kilometers.
Sea level would not change. An ice shelf is floating on water by buoyancy -- sea level rise is proportional to volume of water displaced. So when the ice shelf melts, there is no change in sea level because the water displaced by the ice shelf is filled by the volume of water that ice shelf represents. Sea level changes when ice on land melts and either runs off or sheds directly into the ocean as icebergs.
SciolyHarsh wrote:Question: Suppose a large area of continent consists of 30 km of Earth’s crust with a density of 2.6 Mg/m³ over 90 km of material with a density of 3.0 Mg/m³. The asthenosphere density is 3.3 Mg/m³. This region is covered with a 1.5 km thickness of ice of density 0.9 Mg/m³ and is assumed to be in isostatic equilibrium. If the ice melts, how much will the surface of the continent change once isostatic equilibrium is re-established? Answer in kilometers.
But it is asking about the surface of the continent, not sea level: the glacier is not in the ocean.cacodemon wrote:Nope, somewhat of a trick question.Sea level would not change. An ice shelf is floating on water by buoyancy -- sea level rise is proportional to volume of water displaced. So when the ice shelf melts, there is no change in sea level because the water displaced by the ice shelf is filled by the volume of water that ice shelf represents. Sea level changes when ice on land melts and either runs off or sheds directly into the ocean as icebergs.
0.41 km?