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Originally Posted by nauthiz
So here's a kiddie pool analogy that I think might be a little more closely related to reality: Fill a kiddie pool with water. Simulate the rebound by pushing the underside of the pool so that it sticks up out of the water. Now, I predict that the water level in the pool will be quite a bit higher because that "island" we've created will displace so much water. I also predict that higher we push this "island" up out of the water, the more it will displace.
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Part of the problem with the kiddie pool analogy like that is that a displacement of the bottom in one area will be compensated in another. Like what you mention about the Netherlands in the last part of your post.
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Originally Posted by Grand_Lunar
About rebounds, I suppose the nature of the magma underneath an area effects wether or not an area does rise after ice melts from it, yes?
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Just whether or not?
Not on Earth, I don't think. It could be possible that an accumulation of ice on a particular part could result in a
rise of that part, because of the interaction of water weight on the rest of the surface, but I don't think the conditions obtain on the Earth if they can at all.