Sentences with phrase «eustatic change»
Eustatic change (as opposed to local change) results in an alteration to the global sea levels due to changes in either the volume of water in the world's oceans or net changes in the volume of the ocean basins.
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Cross-cutting relationships are observed at the valley - scale, indicating multiple episodes of water level fall and rise, each well over 50 meters, a similar scale to eustatic sea level changes on Earth.
The Conrad Blucher Institute (on line) has developed apparent sea level rise rates for the Texas and SW Louisiana coasts (this accounts for both subsidence and eustatic sea level changes).
... The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change attributes about 6 cm century to melting and other eustatic processes, leaving a residual of 12 cm of 20th century rise to be accounted for.
► Eustatic sea - level rise is a change in global average sea level brought about by an increase in the volume of the world ocean.
Sea level changes can be driven by either variations in the masses or volume of the oceans («eustatic»), or by changes of the sea surface relative to the land («relative»).
An understanding of sea - level change requires maintaining a clear distinction between global (or eustatic) sea - level and local relative sea - level.
When corrected for this, using geologically constrained model predictions, the change in eustatic sea level since the Roman Period is -0.13 ± 0.09 m.»
The results are normalized by the equivalent eustatic sea - level change for each mass flux event (see original reference).
My point in bringing this up is that 99.99 % + of the eustatic sea level changes have occurred prior to mans existance.
Note that these trends may include a component of subsidence / uplift of the islands themselves and so are the numbers most relevant for local planning (not eustatic sea level change).