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  2. Past sea level - Wikipedia

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    The change in the total mass of ice on land, called the mass balance, is important because it causes changes in global sea level. High-precision gravimetry from satellites in low-noise flight has determined that in 2006, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets experienced a combined mass loss of 475 ± 158 Gt/yr, equivalent to 1.3 ± 0.4 mm/yr ...

  3. Marine transgression - Wikipedia

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    The opposite of transgression is regression where the sea level falls relative to the land and exposes the former sea bottom. During the Pleistocene Ice Age , so much water was removed from the oceans and stored on land as year-round glaciers that the ocean regressed 120 m, exposing the Bering land bridge between Alaska and Asia.

  4. Coastline of China - Wikipedia

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    The shape and features of the Chinese coast have been influenced dramatically by geology, climate, natural storms, tides, currents, sea level changes, winds, and tectonics. [4] Inland rivers such as the Yangtze and Huang He also supply the coast with sediment , which influence and control erosional trends .

  5. Fact check: Misleading data used to claim sea levels down in ...

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    The claim: Sydney area sea levels down since 1914, which represents 'the true ocean rise story' An Oct. 27 Facebook post shows a document that makes a series of claims about sea level rise and ...

  6. Tectonics of the South China Sea - Wikipedia

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    The seafloor spreading ceased with the extrusion stopped. Because of the sea floor spreading, the Borneo block underwent rotation. Although this model explains the geometrical change of the South China Sea Basin during its tectonic evolution, it is still vague on some parts especially in relation to the rotation of Borneo. [9]

  7. Meltwater pulse 1A - Wikipedia

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    Image showing sea level change during the end of the last glacial period. Meltwater pulse 1A is indicated. Meltwater pulse 1A (MWP1a) is the name used by Quaternary geologists, paleoclimatologists, and oceanographers for a period of rapid post-glacial sea level rise, between 13,500 and 14,700 years ago, during which the global sea level rose between 16 meters (52 ft) and 25 meters (82 ft) in ...

  8. China's new national map has set off a wave of protests. Why?

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    China has upset many countries in the Asia-Pacific region with its release of a new official map that lays claim to most of the South China Sea, as well as to contested parts of India and Russia ...

  9. Post-glacial rebound - Wikipedia

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    The sea-level equation (SLE) is a linear integral equation that describes the sea-level variations associated with the PGR. The basic idea of the SLE dates back to 1888, when Woodward published his pioneering work on the form and position of mean sea level , [ 45 ] and only later has been refined by Platzman [ 46 ] and Farrell [ 47 ] in the ...