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Fun random factoid, big parts of Europe are still slowly rising because the weight of ice compressed a lot of it.

On the other side, a lot of land is sinking because the soil is drying out due to years of droughts and water mismanagement (farmers like to keep the water table lower. I live in NL where we have the water management infrastructure to tweak the water table)



Same thing happened in Vermont with some of the evidence for it being whale skeletons found in fields hundreds of miles from the ocean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_whale


> On the other side, a lot of land is sinking because the soil is drying out due to years of droughts and water mismanagement...

Shockingly fast, too, in some spots.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/us/corcoran-california-si...

"Over the past 14 years, the town has sunk as much as 11.5 feet in some places..."



When the soil is drying out, it will start to float. Im from Boskoop in NL, we have that problem with peat soil (veen grond). This is also irreversible, when peat soil gets dried it will not become wet again.




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