Sentences with phrase «ago sea levels fell»

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In Australia, aboriginal stories recall even longer connections to their lands, even seeming to refer to times when sea levels rose and fell more than 15,000 years ago.

The refined sea - level curve showed that the site, now 42 meters under water, would have become submerged during sea level rise between 9,700 and 10,200 years ago, long after Naia and the other extinct animals likely fell into it.

The area was faulted about 1.8 million years ago as sea level fell, exposing the older shelf, and the consequence of that was the creation of a high ridge along the shelf edge that became the site of coral growth.

Analysis: Sea level rise or fall can be an indicator of warming or cooling, but the sea has been rising since the last ice age ended, less than 10 thousand years aSea level rise or fall can be an indicator of warming or cooling, but the sea has been rising since the last ice age ended, less than 10 thousand years asea has been rising since the last ice age ended, less than 10 thousand years ago.

15 years ago the annual rise would have been 3.0 − 15 * 0.194 = 0.09 mm / yr, and 20 years ago the sea level would have been falling at − (3.0 − 20 * 0.194) = 0.88 mm / yr.