Why is GPS data not enough to confirm that the earth's surface has been moving for many years?

Anonymous

∙ 12y ago

Updated: 8/20/2019

Because GPS has not been available for that many years.

GPS data IS enough to confirm that a point on the Earth's surface has moved

since the GPS unit was installed there. Some very exciting work in seismology

and vulcanology is being done exactly that way, right now.

Wiki User

∙ 11y ago

What else can I help you with?

Were oceans caused by the moving of the earths surface?

How do fossils provide evidence for moving plates?

Their evidence comes from rocks at earths surface.

What is an earthqauake?

the moving of the plates under the earths surface

What are most earthquakes cause by?

moving tectonic plates on earths surface

What are plates techonics?

plate tectonics are moving plates under the earths surface

Which natural process is caused by rocks moving under earths surface?

earthquakes

What are quick moving winds that flow high above earths surface?

seasons

What is moving water a major agent of?

It is the agent of erosiion that has shaped by earths land surface.

What is a major cause of erosion on earths surface?

one major contributor is moving water

What is moving waters major agent of?

It is the agent of erosiion that has shaped by earths land surface.

Which the theory views the earths surface as composed of slowly moving plates?

Plate tectonics.

What is the weathering away of the earths surface by wind glaciers and moving water called?

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