Sea-Level Changes The Last 20,000 Years,9780471969136

Sea-Level Changes The Last 20,000 Years

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780471969136
ISBN10: 0471969133
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-01-23
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary

Sea-level changes since the last glacial maximum have varied considerably from place to place. This book offers a discussion of the main causes of these changes, and of the methods employed to recognise former shorelines. Present-day sea-level trends are covered along with significant sea-level histories, and examples are used to illustrate these areas. The book concludes by showing how these relative sea-level changes can be used to assess trends of tectonic movements, recognise and date seismic displacements, infer climatic changes, and improve geophysical models of the earths interior.

Author Biography

Paolo Antonio Pirazzoli was an Italian/French geomorphologist.

Table of Contents

Preface viii(2)
Acknowledgements x
Introduction 1(4)
Chapter One: Causes of sea-level change
5(18)
1.1 Introduction
5(1)
1.2 Changes in the quantity of oceanic water
6(5)
1.3 Deformation of the shape of the oceanic basin
11(5)
1.4 Variations of water density and dynamic changes affecting the water masses
16(7)
Chapter Two: Evidence of former sea levels
23(40)
2.1 Rocky shores
23(23)
2.2 Sedimentary shores
46(7)
2.3 Archaeological and historical sea-level indicators
53(5)
2.4 Dating a sea-level indicator
58(2)
2.5 How sea-level curves are constructed
60(3)
Chapter Three: The ice age Earth
63(18)
3.1 How the last glaciation developed
63(1)
3.2 The sea-level positions during the last ice age
64(4)
3.3 Low-sea-level land bridges and landscapes
68(7)
3.4 Last glaciation climate and hydrology
75(3)
3.5 Last glaciation biomass and CO2 exchanges
78(3)
Chapter Four: Deglacial sea-level changes
81(19)
4.1 Introduction
81(2)
4.2 Modelling results
83(1)
4.3 Regional case studies
84(11)
4.4 A gradually rising or a fluctuating sea level?
95(1)
4.5 The Younger Dryas sea-level change
96(2)
4.6 Impacts of past sea-level rise on coastal systems
98(1)
4.7 Palaeomonsoons
98(2)
Chapter Five: Relative sea-level changes in the late Holocene
100(35)
5.1 Delta and coral reef development
100(2)
5.2 Continuance of isostatic emergence/submergence processes
102(11)
5.3 Seismo-tectonic displacements
113(9)
5.4 Relative sea-level changes produced by aseismic tectonics
122(3)
5.5 Transgression-regression sequences and sea-level changes
125(10)
Chapter Six: Present-day sea-level trends
135(28)
6.1 Introduction
135(2)
6.2 Instrumental measurements
137(19)
6.3 Explanation of current estimations of global sea-level rise
156(2)
6.4 Coastal areas at risk from sea-level rise
158(5)
Conclusions 163(12)
References 175(22)
Author Index 197(7)
Geographical Index 204(6)
Subject Index 210

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