Global sea-level rise at the end of the last Ice Age interrupted by rapid ‘jumps’
Posted by ScienceDaily: Oceanography News on 5 December, 2010
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Researchers have estimated that sea-level rose by an average of about 1 meter per century at the end of the last Ice Age, interrupted by rapid "jumps" during which it rose by up to 2.5 meters per century. The findings will help unravel the responses of ocean circulation and climate to large inputs of ice-sheet meltwater to the world ocean....