Sentences with phrase «local sea level fall»

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What they found was that local destabilization of the Amundsen Sea region of West Antarctica ultimately causes the entire ice sheet to fall into the ocean over several centuries to several thousands of years, gradually adding 3 meters to global sea levels, they report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencSea region of West Antarctica ultimately causes the entire ice sheet to fall into the ocean over several centuries to several thousands of years, gradually adding 3 meters to global sea levels, they report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencsea levels, they report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

•» Hence, both regional and local sea - level rise and fall in meter - scale is related to the geologic events only and not related to global warming and / or polar ice melt.»

Blith, when local sea levels have not risen and in some places actually fallen since 1950, regardless of the hydrology, then please explain how SLR can possibly have accelerated?

Boutrous pointed out that while global sea levels are rising on average, some evidence shows that sea levels have fallen in specific regions, and coastal flooding in places like the San Francisco Bay Area is also a function of local conditions like land subsidence.

Sea levels rose at the end of the last Ice Age but were roughly stable after 4000 BCE, rising in some places and falling in others due to local geological shifts.