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Old 10-April-2008, 09:28 PM
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Scandinavia is still recovering from the last ice age, when the land was depressed 2000ft (600 m) by the weight of the ice. Today the earth's crust is "rebounding" at the rate of 0.3 inches (9mm) a year in the Gulf of Bothnia.
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