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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Sea level change"”.
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Recent relative sea-level change in Eastern North America
Thesis (M.S.)--Joint Program in Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 1987.
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Earthquakes and sea-level change in Hokkaido, north-east Japan
… of an investigation into the pattern of relative sea-level (RSL) changes in north-east Hokkaido, Japan. The aim of the research is to better understand the importance of seismic and non-seismic processes in controlling spatial patterns of vertical land motions over a range of timescales. The main …
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Late Quaternary relative sea level change in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
… Glacial Maximum (LGM), and their contribution to sea level rise during subsequent deglaciation remains uncertain. The use of precise relative sea level (RSL) data offers great potential for inferring regional ice sheet histories, as well as helping to validate numerical models predicting future …
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The recent history of the Antarctic ice sheet : constraints from sea-level change
… which have a major contributing role in climate change, are both subjects of considerable interest in earth sciences, and the study of sea-level change provides insight into both. Sea-level change since the last glacial maximum (LGM), about 18,000 years ago, can be explained as the sum of three …
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The recent history of the Antarctic ice sheet : constraints from sea-level change
… which have a major contributing role in climate change, are both subjects of considerable interest in earth sciences, and the study of sea-level change provides insight into both. Sea-level change since the last glacial maximum (LGM), about 18,000 years ago, can be explained as the sum of three …
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Middle to late Holocene sea-level change in Western Denmark : a diatom-based study
… to assess the potential use of diatoms as sea-level indicators. Results for the two data sets analysed in ordinations indicate that elevation exerts a strong, independent and statistically significant influence on modem diatom distributions in the Ho Bugt embayment. Diatom-based transfer …
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Holocene floodplain vegetation dynamics and sea-level change in the lower Aire valley, Yorkshire
… a rich resource for studying palaeoecological change which may provide information concerning catchment and sea-level change. This thesis reconstructs the environmental history of the lower Aire valley during the Holocene, and investigates the factors influencing floodplain and vegetational …
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Relative sea level change in the Forth and Tay Estuaries: past changes informing future trends
This thesis introduces new relative sea level datasets from the Forth and Tay Estuaries dating between 1900 and 2010 and uses these to analyse sea level oscillations, surge components and to influence future sea level projections. Prior to this research, relative sea levels had not been analysed …
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Effects of environmental change on species: Marvacrassatella lineage and the Plio-Pleistocene record of sea level change
… issues, such as the effects of environmental change on organisms. Much has been written on extinction caused by environmental change; however, relatively little research has been directed at species which survive these changes. The Marvacrassatella (Mollusca: Bivalvia) lineage is widely …
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Interpreting Early Triassic (Smithian) sea-level change and climate using sequence stratigraphy and oxygen isotopes of conodont apatite
… sequences developed in response to ~My-scale sea-level changes. The Lower Triassic Lower Thaynes Formation records the Smithian (2nd sea-level cycle in the Early Triassic) in the western United States (Confusion Range and Weber Canyon, Utah). The Smithian portion of the Mikin Formation records …
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Glacial isostatic adjustment and relative sea level change over the last earthquake cycle in upper Cook Inlet, Alaska, USA
Using observations of land surface deformation, sea level change and geophysical modelling, this thesis considers the interactions of ice mass fluctuations and tectonic deformation over the last great earthquake cycle in south central Alaska. Reconstructions of relative sea level change over the …
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Using Sea-Level Data to Constrain the Contribution of the Greenland Ice Sheet to Contemporary and Recent Sea-Level Change
… potentially wide-reaching impacts on climate and sea-level change of a declining Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS), the mass balance of the past decade has caused concern that the ice sheet is reacting to increased temperatures of the industrial era and that the ice sheet is in the initial stages of …
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The GPS Geodetic Infrastructure in the Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands Region and Its Applications for Faulting, Landslide, and Sea-Level Change Study
… Caribbean plates in the northeastern Caribbean Sea. The interaction of geophysical risk and human settlement makes the region especially vulnerable to natural hazards, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, hurricanes, and flooding. This region is one of the earliest places that employed …
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Semi-empirical sea-level modelling
Semi-empirical sea-level models (SEMs) exploit physically motivated empirical relationships between global sea level and certain drivers, in the following global mean temperature. This model class evolved as a supplement to process-based models (Rahmstorf (2007)) which were unable to fully …
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Anatomy of a Carboniferous transgression: upper Tullig Cyclothem, County Clare, Ireland
… the sedimentary product of cyclicity in relative sea-level on either a regional or global scale, showing both regressive and transgressive phases. This study aims to contribute to our understanding of the sedimentary consequences of relative sea-level rise in a Carboniferous transgressive sequence …
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