Study Reconstructs 540 Million Years of Sea Level Change in Unprecedented Detail

Study Reconstructs 540 Million Years of Sea Level Change in Unprecedented Detail

Researchers have modeled sea level changes on thousand-year timescales for the past 540 million years. These insights offer better tools for mapping subsurface layers used in energy and waste storage. Earth’s sea levels have fluctuated ever since the planet first had oceans. Until recently, scientists could only estimate these changes over broad time intervals, typically [...]

New Study: Africa’s Atlantic Coast Sea Levels Were Still 1 Meter Higher Than Today 2000 Years Ago

This Mid- to Late-Holocene RSL highstand was “mainly controlled by the deglaciation history” − meltwater contributions from Earth’s ice sheets and glaciers. Because the climate was so much warmer than today at that time, there was significantly less water locked up on land as ice.