Introducing sea level change /

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"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dawson, A. G. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Dunedin Academic Press, 2018.
Colección:Introducing Earth and environmental sciences.
Temas:
Sea level.
Climatic changes.
Climate Change
Mer > Niveau.
Climat > Changements.
sea level.
climate change.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geology.
Climatic changes
Sea level
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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