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To: beethovenfan

Hint... the seas have risen 115 meters in the last 11,000 years - slightly more than 1 cm per year.


18 posted on 06/20/2008 7:41:29 AM PDT by xcamel (Being on the wrong track means the unintended consequences express train doesnt kill you going by)
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To: xcamel
the seas have risen 115 meters in the last 11,000 years - slightly more than 1 cm per year.

That's right, though of course most of the sea-change was packed into the period of greatest melt some 11000 years ago.

Some previous interglacial epochs have had a peak sea level 3 to 20m higher than the current one. I'm not sure if any of the warm periods in the current Holocene period have put the sea that high..

We are almost certainly at the local maximum of the Modern Warm Period (worse luck) and won't see higher seas until the next warm period in about a thousand years. If we don't slide into a full ice age before then, of course.

29 posted on 06/20/2008 8:03:49 AM PDT by agere_contra
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