Sentences with word «highstand»

in their response, attempt to refute our conclusions and claim the deposits to be the result of a +21 m eustatic sea level highstand during marine isotope stage (MIS) 11.

The authors found three main highstand phases, which occurred at about 3250 — 3000, 2600 — 950 and 650 — 160 cal yrs BP, respectively.

Mitrovica, J. X. & Milne, G. A. On the origin of late Holocene sea - level highstands within equatorial ocean basins.

Wilmot McCutchen (26)-- We also know that during the previous interglacial, the Eemian, that global temperatures were about 2 K warmer than «at present», i.e., 1950s, and during that time considerable melt occurred in Greenland (and probably some of WAIS), resulting in a 4 — 6 m sea highstand (different in different locations).

and conclude that the Bermuda deposits do not provide unequivocal evidence of a prolonged + 21 m eustatic sea level highstand.

These highstands imply an ongoing and moderate, sub - mm / yr, sea - level fall in the far field of the Late Pleistocene ice cover that has long been linked to the process of glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA; Clark et al., 1978).