Introducing sea level change

"One of the most important issues in current debates on climate change is sea level rise. Hardly a day goes by when there is not a newspaper article, TV or radio presentation on the topic. Almost half of the world's population live on or near the coast, so there is real concern about the i...

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Main Author Dawson, A. G. (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Edinburgh : Dunedin Academic Press, 2018.
SeriesIntroducing Earth and environmental sciences.
Subjects
Sea level.
Climatic changes.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN1780466005
9781780466002
9781523121854
1523121858
1780460872
9781780460871
9781780466019
1780466013
Physical Description1 online resource (105 pages) : color illustrations, maps.

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Table of Contents:
  • What does 'sea level' mean?
  • Evidence for former relative sea level changes
  • Long-term chronologies of relative sea level change
  • Reconstructing past changes in relative sea level
  • Response of the Earth's crust to surface loads
  • Processes of relative sea level change
  • Ancient and modern ice sheets and relative sea level changes
  • Relative sea level change during the last glacial maximum
  • Ice sheets and meltwater pulses
  • Abandoning global sea level curves
  • Present and future relative sea level change
  • Understanding sea level change.

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