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Why are gps data not enough to confirm that the earth's surface has been moving for many years?
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∙ 13y ago
because scientificly , the Earth is just to much for the GPS to keep track of. Also the GPS runs of off satellites and different types of plates in the ground so it cannot tell if the Earth's bin moving for many of the years.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 13y agoGPS time series show data for only the last several years. GPS is a new technology and a global network of GPS stations has existed for less than a decade. How do we know that the surface of the Earth has been moving for a longer period of time? The answer to this question comes from the study of rocks.
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How the way in which wind and moving water reshape earths surface?
Wind and moving water reshape the Earth's surface through the process of erosion.
How does the earths crust move?
It gets a free ride on the moving surface of a mantle convection current.
List the layers of the atmosphere in order moving up from earths surface?
water hail snow
How can moving water on earths surface do work?
It moves sediment it erodes rock It dissolves certain kinds of rocks.
What is the theory that earths surface is divided into more than 12 slow moving plates?
That theory relates to Plate Tectonics.
What is a number of rigid but moving pieces of earths surface?
Lithospheric plates are a number of rigid but moving pieces of earths surface.
Were oceans caused by the moving of the earths surface?
no
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
How the way in which wind and moving water reshape earths surface?
Wind and moving water reshape the Earth's surface through the process of erosion.
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
Why is GPS data not enough to confirm that the earth's surface has been moving for many years?
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.
What is a major cause of erosion on earths surface?
one major contributor is moving water
What is the weathering away of the earths surface by wind glaciers and moving water called?
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