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Originally Posted by dyna mo
well, technically he is right. Rocks falling into the oceans would change the level of the water. We'd need a calculator with a lot of decimal places to determine the increase.
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Yes, I know.. however its all about amounts of volume... if you fill a glass of water to the top edge and drop a rock, piece of ice or a egg in it, each will cause the water to overflow. However the amount of rocks falling into the ocean amount to about a gain of sand being dropped into that glass.. vs with ice sheets melting and sliding into the ocean its more like dropping a ice cube into that glass..
Its all about the volume. Its pretty often we hear ice sheet the size of Maine breaks off into the ocean (or what ever state they choose to describe).. Meanwhile have you ever heard of a landmass of rocks the size of Maine falling into the ocean?