The Phanerozoic Record of Global Sea-Level Change
We review Phanerozoic sea-level changes [543 million years ago (Ma) to the present] on various time scales and present a new sea-level record for the past 100 million years (My). Long-term sea level peaked at 100 ± 50 meters during the Cretaceous, implying that ocean-crust production rates were much...
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craaas:10.1126/science.1116412 2024-09-15T17:44:39+00:00 The Phanerozoic Record of Global Sea-Level Change Miller, Kenneth G. Kominz, Michelle A. Browning, James V. Wright, James D. Mountain, Gregory S. Katz, Miriam E. Sugarman, Peter J. Cramer, Benjamin S. Christie-Blick, Nicholas Pekar, Stephen F. 2005 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1116412 https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1116412 en eng American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science volume 310, issue 5752, page 1293-1298 ISSN 0036-8075 1095-9203 journal-article 2005 craaas https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1116412 2024-09-05T04:01:13Z We review Phanerozoic sea-level changes [543 million years ago (Ma) to the present] on various time scales and present a new sea-level record for the past 100 million years (My). Long-term sea level peaked at 100 ± 50 meters during the Cretaceous, implying that ocean-crust production rates were much lower than previously inferred. Sea level mirrors oxygen isotope variations, reflecting ice-volume change on the 10 4 - to 10 6 -year scale, but a link between oxygen isotope and sea level on the 10 7 -year scale must be due to temperature changes that we attribute to tectonically controlled carbon dioxide variations. Sea-level change has influenced phytoplankton evolution, ocean chemistry, and the loci of carbonate, organic carbon, and siliciclastic sediment burial. Over the past 100 My, sea-level changes reflect global climate evolution from a time of ephemeral Antarctic ice sheets (100 to 33 Ma), through a time of large ice sheets primarily in Antarctica (33 to 2.5 Ma), to a world with large Antarctic and large, variable Northern Hemisphere ice sheets (2.5 Ma to the present). Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica AAAS Resource Center (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Science 310 5752 1293 1298 |
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We review Phanerozoic sea-level changes [543 million years ago (Ma) to the present] on various time scales and present a new sea-level record for the past 100 million years (My). Long-term sea level peaked at 100 ± 50 meters during the Cretaceous, implying that ocean-crust production rates were much lower than previously inferred. Sea level mirrors oxygen isotope variations, reflecting ice-volume change on the 10 4 - to 10 6 -year scale, but a link between oxygen isotope and sea level on the 10 7 -year scale must be due to temperature changes that we attribute to tectonically controlled carbon dioxide variations. Sea-level change has influenced phytoplankton evolution, ocean chemistry, and the loci of carbonate, organic carbon, and siliciclastic sediment burial. Over the past 100 My, sea-level changes reflect global climate evolution from a time of ephemeral Antarctic ice sheets (100 to 33 Ma), through a time of large ice sheets primarily in Antarctica (33 to 2.5 Ma), to a world with large Antarctic and large, variable Northern Hemisphere ice sheets (2.5 Ma to the present). |
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Miller, Kenneth G. Kominz, Michelle A. Browning, James V. Wright, James D. Mountain, Gregory S. Katz, Miriam E. Sugarman, Peter J. Cramer, Benjamin S. Christie-Blick, Nicholas Pekar, Stephen F. |
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Miller, Kenneth G. Kominz, Michelle A. Browning, James V. Wright, James D. Mountain, Gregory S. Katz, Miriam E. Sugarman, Peter J. Cramer, Benjamin S. Christie-Blick, Nicholas Pekar, Stephen F. The Phanerozoic Record of Global Sea-Level Change |
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Miller, Kenneth G. Kominz, Michelle A. Browning, James V. Wright, James D. Mountain, Gregory S. Katz, Miriam E. Sugarman, Peter J. Cramer, Benjamin S. Christie-Blick, Nicholas Pekar, Stephen F. |
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The Phanerozoic Record of Global Sea-Level Change |
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The Phanerozoic Record of Global Sea-Level Change |
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