Known as the Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL), this region ... s interior and trace the movement of materials beneath the ocean floor. They discovered that the gravity low is linked to anomalous ...

GEBCO bathymetric data - digital mapping of the ocean floor in layman's terms - observed ... assumed that the plane plunged into the southern Indian Ocean, with satellite data suggesting an ...

PETALING JAYA: The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has released an acoustic sonar image of the southern Indian Ocean seabed in ... image of the sea floor gathered by GO Phoenix.

New research suggests the IOGL is caused by hot, low-density mantle material rising from deep inside Earth — a hidden force shaping ocean basins. Far from a perfect sphere, Earth’s gravity ...