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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of sea level rise in the sea level curves. A highstand systems tract (HST) occurs during the late stage of base level rise when the rate of sea level rise...
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by alluvium. Historical Biology, 6(3):203-220. Heckel, P.H., 1986. Sea-level curve for Pennsylvanian eustatic marine transgressive-regressive depositional...
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The sea level has been rising from the end of the last ice age, which was around 20,000 years ago. Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rose by...
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Stratigraphy (redirect from Stratigraphic levels)
chronostratigraphy. One important development is the Vail curve, which attempts to define a global historical sea-level curve according to inferences from worldwide stratigraphic...
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Elevation (redirect from Height of the ground above mean sea level)
most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § Vertical...
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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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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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Hypsometry (redirect from Hypsometric curve)
Earth's surface relative to mean sea level. On Earth, the elevations can take on either positive or negative (below sea level) values. The distribution is...
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Physical oceanography (section Sea level change)
subduction zones. From sea level, the oceans are far deeper than the continents are tall; examination of the Earth's hypsographic curve shows that the average...
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deposits of the former Champlain Sea. Like many similar marine deposits, the sediments, which accumulated within the Champlain Sea lack the physical characteristics;...
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resists wave action and forms a rigid build up that may develop up to sea-level. The presence of a rim produces restricted circulation in the back reef...
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Research". Joy, Shawn (2019). "The trouble with the curve: Reevaluating the Gulf of Mexico sea-level curve". Quaternary International. 525: 103–113. Bibcode:2019QuInt...
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Bank, are very steep. The Banks were dry land during past ice ages, when sea level was as much as 120 meters (390 feet) lower than at present; the land area...
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Raised beach (section Land and sea level history)
an eustatic sea level rise. Thus, in areas of both eustatic and isostatic or tectonic influences, the course of the relative sea level curve can be complicated...
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based purely on present bathymetry of the Bering Strait and eustatic sea level curve place the event around 11,000 years BP (Figure 1). Ongoing research...
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Yr.: Its Importance in Sea-Level Curves of the East Coast of the United States and Its Value in Explaining Long-Term Sea-Level Changes". Geology. 1 (3):...
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Romundset, Anders; Fredin, Ola; Høgaas, Fredrik (April 2015). "A Holocene sea-level curve and revised isobase map based on isolation basins from near the southern...
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France. He is best known for his work on the Phanerozoic sea-level fluctuations and eustatic curves that are widely used in the academia and industry as the...
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Yokoyama, Y.; Lambeck, K.; Chappell, J. (1998). "Refining the eustatic sea-level curve since the Last Glacial Maximum using far- and intermediate-field sites"...
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Sea level Sea-level curve Sea level equation Sea level rise Dietz, Robert S. (1961). "Continent and Ocean Basin Evolution by Spreading of the Sea Floor"...
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Older Peron (category Sea level)
Yusuke; Lambeck, Kurt; Chappell, John (1998). "Refining the eustatic sea-level curve since the Last Glacial Maximum using far- and intermediate-field sites"...
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Meltwater pulse 1B (category Sea level)
oceanographers for a period of either rapid or just accelerated post-glacial sea level rise that some hypothesize to have occurred between 11,500 and 11,200...
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The Mediterranean Sea (/ˌmɛdɪtəˈreɪniən/ MED-ih-tə-RAY-nee-ən) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean basin and almost...
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The horizon is the apparent curve that separates the surface of a celestial body from its sky when viewed from the perspective of an observer on or near...
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Convention on the Law of the Sea, is the line (or curve) along the coast from which the seaward limits of a state's territorial sea and certain other maritime...
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