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Why there’s less Gravity in Hudson Bay, Canada

Why there’s less Gravity in Hudson Bay, Canada

A new theory to account for the Hudson Bay area’s missing gravity concerns the Laurentide Ice Sheet, which covered much of present-day Canada and the northern United States. … In the meantime, the area around Hudson Bay has less mass because some of the Earth has been pushed to the sides by the ice sheet.

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