Call number:
M 97.0285
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
xii, 211 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
0471969133
Series Statement:
Coastal morphology and research
Classification:
Geodynamics
Language:
English
Note:
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Causes of sea-level change
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Changes in the quantity of oceanic water
1.3 Deformation of the shape of the oceanic basin
1.4 Variations of water density and dynamic changes affecting the water masses
Chapter Two: Evidence of former sea levels
2.1 Rocky shores
2.2 Sedimentary shores
2.3 Archaeological and historical sea-level indicators
2.4 Dating a sea-level indicator
2.5 How sea-level curves are constructed
Chapter Three: The ice age Earth
3.1 How the last glaciation developed
3.2 The sea-level positions during the last Ice age
3.3 Low-sea-level land bridges and landscapes
3.4 Last glaciation climate and hydrology
3.5 Last glaciation biomass and CO2 exchanges
Chapter Four: Deglacial sea-level changes
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Modelling results
4.3 Regional case studies
4.4 A gradually rising or a fluctuating sea level?
4.5 The Younger Dryas sea-level change
4.6 Impacts of past sea-level rise on coastal systems
4.7 Palaeomonsoons
Chapter Five: Relative sea-level changes in the late Holocene
5.1 Delta and coral reef development
5.2 Continuance of isostatic emergence / submergence processes
5.3 Seismo-tectonic displacements
5.4 Relative sea-level changes produced by aseismic tectonics
5.5 Transgression-regression sequences and sea-level changes
6 Present-day sea-level trends
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Instrumental measurements .
6.3 Explanation of current estimations of global sea-level rise
6.4 Coastal areas at risk from sea-level rise
Conclusions
References
Author Index
Geographical Index
Subject Index
Location:
Upper compact magazine
Branch Library:
GFZ Library
