• Relative sea level (RSL) is defined as the sea level that is observed with respect to a land-based reference frame. It is often contrasted with eustatic...
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    Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights...
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  • contained in a single basin. Eustatic sea level is not relative to local surfaces, because relative sea level depends on many factors – including tectonics...
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    Global or eustatic sea level has fluctuated significantly over Earth's history. The main factors affecting sea level are the amount and volume of available...
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    relative sea level dropped here from 152 to 128 m (499 to 420 ft) above sea level. Transitional regions in the eastern Baltic show positive relative sea...
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  • Sea level drop refers to the phenomenon in which the shrinking weights of melting glaciers cause the surrounding land to rise and the relative sea level...
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    Therefore, local relative sea level rise may be higher or lower than the global average. Changing ice masses also affect the distribution of sea water around...
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  • was developed for a temperature of 15 °C and a relative humidity of 0%. At low altitudes above sea level, the pressure decreases by about 1.2 kPa (12 hPa)...
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  • units primarily in terms of changes in relative sea level (the combination of global changes in eustatic sea level and regional subsidence caused by tectonic...
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    either volcanic or nonvolcanic origin below sea level. Then, when relative sea level drops below the level of the flat surface of coral reef, it is exposed...
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    isostatic rebound with implications of total isostatic depression and relative sea level". Quaternary Research. 78 (1): 110–118. Bibcode:2012QuRes..78..110O...
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    process causes the land to move relative to the sea, ancient shorelines are found to lie above present day sea level in areas that were once glaciated...
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    the relative sea level, only limited number of processes can cause it. According to Schlager, only anomalously quick rise of relative sea level or benthic...
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  • above mean sea level ASL – above sea level FAMSL – feet above mean sea level FASL – feet above sea level MAMSL – metres above mean sea level MASL – metres...
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  • sea water when 16 m (52 ft) below sea level. The stable and low relative sea levels found in Haväng and Pärnu in the eastern Baltic suggest that sea-level...
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    The sea-level curve (also known as the eustatic curve) is the representation of the changes of the sea level relative to present day mean sea level as...
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    the shoreline by a relative fall in the sea level. Around the world, a combination of tectonic coastal uplift and Quaternary sea-level fluctuations has...
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    Humidity (redirect from Relative humidity)
    "Recommended relative humidity level", The engineering toolbox, archived from the original on 2013-05-11, retrieved 2013-05-01, Relative humidity above...
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  • on an erosional surface approximate the positions of sea level on a coastal plain, the sea level variation of a marine transgression/regression cycle...
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    Barents Sea environment and conservation. Zeeberg, JaapJan; David J. Lubinski; Steven L. Forman (September 2001). "Holocene Relative Sea Level History...
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    al., 2023, "Evolution of Sea Level at Tyre During Antiquity", BAAL 21, with a new hypothesis about the local relative sea level rise and a major discovery...
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  • Social Landlord, a British independent public housing organization Relative sea level, the distance from the ocean floor to its surface Rennellese Sign...
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    time have been given different names relative to their cyclothem. The Niobrara sea was formed by the first sea level rise expanding the seaway westward...
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    of the grains. Additionally, the impact of sea level on sediment deposition is well known; relative sea level will control the basinward extent of lithologies...
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    glacier advance and retreat also affects relative sea level. Western Norway experienced a relative sea level rise of 10 m (32+2⁄3 ft) as the Scandinavian...
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    M.; Becher, G.P.; Schoning, K. (2021). "A Holocene relative sea-level database for the Baltic Sea". Quaternary Science Reviews. 266. 107071. Bibcode:2021QSRv...
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    continental crust) over geologic time. They are geologic evidence of relative sea level rising and then falling (transgressing and regressing), thereby depositing...
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    Limestone. This member accumulated below wave base in the open sea after relative sea level rose again. The Devonian limestone and dolomite that comprise...
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    that they may alternate between periods of high and low relative sea levels. High relative sea level leads to increased oceanicity, while the opposite leads...
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    5,500 years ago when relative sea level rapidly rose. 2. The Teche delta formed 5,500 to 3,500 years ago after relative sea level rise decelerated. 3....
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