This article was obviously written by a non-geologist.
“As they flow off the land, we are warned, seas rise. Yet something else is lately worrying geologists: the likelihood that the Earth’s crust, relieved of so much formidable weight of ice borne for many thousands of years, has begun to stretch and rebound.”
What a bunch of putrid ignorance. The earth’s crust does not consist of only the land area, it includes what’s underneath the oceans! Not only that, but there hasn’t been any sea rise!!
“The Earth shudders in Haiti. Then Chile. Then western China. Mexicali-Calexico. The Solomon Islands. Spain. New Guinea.”
What!!?? You mean these places weren’t covered with mile thick ice the last ice age?
(I can’t believe I had to read through the whole article to get to the guy’s point. It read like a sixth-grade paper where extra credit is given for using descriptive words.)
HOWEVER. There are “earthquakes” (small) in Canada due to the rebounding of the rock. Plus, it really screwed with folks before they figured it out in the northern regions. They thought for sure the water level of the oceans was going down based on the tide gauges (sp?) - but it was/is really the ground rising.
Well, just like every good fairy tale (or monster story) - there is some truth behind the story.