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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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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average sea level rose by 15–25 cm (6–10 in), with an increase of 2.3 mm (0.091 in) per year since the 1970s.: 1216 This was faster than the sea level had...
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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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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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System North West Shelf Operational Oceanographic System Sea-level curve Sea level drop Sea level rise World Geodetic System Acoustics Deep scattering layer...
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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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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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Raised beach (section Land and sea level history)
a 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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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 area of...
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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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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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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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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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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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System North West Shelf Operational Oceanographic System Sea-level curve Sea level drop Sea level rise World Geodetic System Acoustics Deep scattering layer...
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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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System North West Shelf Operational Oceanographic System Sea-level curve Sea level drop Sea level rise World Geodetic System Acoustics Deep scattering layer...
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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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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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Institution. Retrieved 2017-02-28. Bird, Maryann (20 March 2000). "Fire from the Sea". Time magazine. Archived from the original on 2011-12-14. Retrieved 4 January...
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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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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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Extinction event (redirect from Sepkoski curve)
and origination data, defining a high-resolution biodiversity curve (the "Sepkoski curve") and successive evolutionary faunas with their own patterns of...
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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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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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Contour line (redirect from Equipotential curve)
isarithm) of a function of two variables is a curve along which the function has a constant value, so that the curve joins points of equal value. It is a plane...
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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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