Global Sea-level Rise At The End Of The Last Ice Age Interrupted By Rapid 'jumps'

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Global Sea-Level Rise at the End of the Last Ice Age Interrupted by Rapid 'Jumps'

 

Coastal erosion in Portugal. (Credit: E. Rohling)

 

ScienceDaily (Dec. 4, 2010) — Southampton researchers have estimated that sea-level rose by an average of about 1 metre per century at the end of the last Ice Age, interrupted by rapid 'jumps' during which it rose by up to 2.5 metres per century. The findings, published in Global and Planetary Change, will help unravel the responses of ocean circulation and climate to large inputs of ice-sheet meltwater to the world ocean.

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101201120605.htm