Penn Scientists Conduct...10,000-Year Study of Strata Compaction and Sea-Level Rise on English Coast

Penn State ^ | Dec 1, 2009 | Unknown

[decimon]

PHILADELPHIA –- Environmental scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and Durham University have employed a novel combination of geological and model reconstructions of wetland environments during a 10,000-year period to address spatial variations in sea-level history and provide quantitative estimates of subsidence along the east coast of England.

The findings indicate that glacial rebound — the rise or fall of land masses that were depressed by the huge weight of ice sheets during the last glacial period — explains differences in relative sea levels along the English coast. Current sea levels in Northeast England, the most northerly study area, have been receding to their present level for the past 4,000 years. Unlike Northeast England, however, the Tees Estuary, Humber Estuary, Lincolnshire Marshes, Fenlands and North Norfolk area all reveal sea-level histories trending upward during the past 10,000 years. Using data from sediment cores up to 20 meters deep, researchers found that sediment compaction explained the variations in sea-level observations at every study area, revealing striking correlations to the thickness of overlying sediment.

[decimon]

Rise and fall ping.

[Vaduz]

Reconstructions of wetland environments during a *(10,000-year period)*.Another Algore study?.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks decimon, another twofer.

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[Fred Nerks]

Oh my goodness, what does it all mean?

[blam]

"Oh my goodness, what does it all mean?"

It will be difficult to decide/determine which was rising or subsiding...the land or the water.

Presently, Northern England is rising while Southern England is sinking due to the ice being removed from Northern England at the end of the Ice Age.

[blam]

BTW thanks, excellent picture, as always.

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/index.htm

I can spend hours at the website...and often do.

[kitchen]

The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) are two separate entities.

[decimon]

The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) are two separate entities.

Thanks.

I usually cut and paste these things to minimize these errors but got lazy this time.

[blam]

"I can spend hours at the website...and often do."

Excellent.

[blam]

"I can spend hours at the website...and often do."

Excellent.

[oiler]

Show me the Data. Show me the Code.