Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Has the South East of England - specifically Kent undergone glacial rebound?

Kent wasn't covered by glaciers during any of the glaciations, but glaciers are big things and compress the crust on a regional scale. Kent was perhaps 200 miles South of the edge of the ice. Would it have been isostatically compressed during glaciations and hence have experienced uplift during interglacials? I know that the area is slowly sinking now, but over the last 10,000 years it could have risen a lot and then started to sink more recently.

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