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The seabed is sinking by about 0.1 millimetres a year due to the weight of the water from melting ice caps.
“Greenland and Antarctica are melting much faster [than they were previously], so we can expect much higher ocean deformation in the future,” says Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma at the University of Bristol in the UK.
He and his colleagues calculated how much the extra mass in the ocean is deforming the seabed, and what this means for sea levels. They found it will only have a tiny effect on future sea …
source: newscientist.com