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Re: Weight



http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of02-353/method.html

Death valley map:

http://pubs.usgs.gov/mf/2002/mf-2381/

data to import into spread sheet:

http://pubs.usgs.gov/mf/2002/mf-2381/

interesting report (first item pdf.)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=gravimetric+data+%22mount+everest%22++gal&btnG=Search
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=gravimetric+data+%22mount+everest%22++gal&btnG=Search>

Some Italians, inter alia, have collected gravimetric data from K-2 and
"that mountain", but I haven't found it.

bc

Brian Whatcott wrote:

At 01:39 AM 5/27/2004, you wrote:


On another list someone wrote ---



Sure. You weigh more in Death Valley than you do on the summit of Mt. Fuji.
Not a lot, but some.


or more at sea level than in Tibet

Yes, this should be true, but is it?


Jim Green
mailto:JMGreen@sisna.com
http://users.sisna.com/jmgreen




Should be on two counts:
isostasy and inverse square law.
Shouldn't be on two counts:
side mass reduces down force,
general obduracy of physical effects.



Brian Whatcott Altus OK Eureka!