Introducing Sea Level Change

Intro; Contents; Preface; List of illustrations and tables; 1 What does 'sea level' mean?; 2 Evidence for former relative sea level changes; 3 Long-term chronologies of relative sea level change; 4 Reconstructing past changes in relative sea level; 5 Response of Earth's crust to surface loads; 6 Processes of relative sea level change; 7 Ancient and modern ice sheets and relative sea level changes; 8 Relative sea level change during the last glacial maximum; 9 Ice sheets and meltwater pulses; 10 Abandoning global sea level curves; 11 Present and future relative sea level change
12 Understanding sea level changeGlossary; Selected further reading
Examines the principal causes of sea level change focusing on the issues of vertical land movements and changes in ocean volume. This is followed by a discussion of the geological evidence for past changes in sea level.