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Sea-level research: a manual for the collection and evaluation of data

A manual for the collection and evaluation of data

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  • © 1986

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  1. Orson Plassche

    1. Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • O. Van De Plassche
      Pages 1-26

    2. Sea-level changes in the Holocene

      • C. Kidson
      Pages 27-64

  3. Sea-Level Indicators

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Elevation and age relationships: raised marine deposits and landforms in glaciated areas: Examples based on Canadian Arctic data

      • J. T. Andrews
      Pages 67-95

    3. Sea-level markers in coastal barrier sands: examples from the North Sea coast

      • Th. B. Roep
      Pages 97-128

    4. Marine molluscs as indicators of former sea-level stands

      • K. S. Petersen
      Pages 129-155

    5. Beachrock as a sea-level indicator

      • D. Hopley
      Pages 157-173

    6. Ooids as sea-level indicators

      • L. R. Kump, A. C. Hine
      Pages 175-193

    7. Corals and reefs as indicators of paleo-sea levels with special reference to the Great Barrier Reef

      • D. Hopley
      Pages 195-228

    8. Coralline algae as indicators of sea-level

      • W. H. Adey
      Pages 229-280

    9. Vermetid gastropods as sea-level indicators

      • J. Laborel
      Pages 281-310

    10. The diagenetic products of marine carbonates as sea-level indicators

      • J. Coudray, L. Montaggioni
      Pages 311-360

    11. Marine notches

      • P. A. Pirazzoli
      Pages 361-400

    12. Submerged forests as sea-level indicators

      • A. Heyworth
      Pages 401-411

    13. Analysis of botanical macro-remains

      • K.-E. Behre
      Pages 413-433

    14. Foraminifera as sea-level indicators

      • D. B. Scott, F. S. Medioli
      Pages 435-456

    15. Diatoms as indicators of sea-level change

      • A. J. M. Palmer, W. H. Abbott
      Pages 457-487

    16. Ostracode options in sea-level studies

      • D. Van Harten
      Pages 489-501

    17. Shell middens as a source for additional information in Holocene shoreline and sea-level reconstruction: examples from the coast of Brazil

      • L. Martin, K. Suguio, J.-M. Flexor
      Pages 503-521
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About this book

An editorial by Wanless (1982), entitled "Sea level is rising - so what?", tells the case of an executive editor of a major city newspaper, who, when confronted with evi­ dence for a recent sea-level rise, replied: "That just means the ocean is six inches deeper, doesn't it?". Whether his "so what?" attitude was real or put on to dike a threat of sensation, there is at present a wide and deepening interest in ongoing and future global sea-level change. This interest has grown along with the concern over global warming due to increasing levels of C02 and trace gases. A stage has been reached where investigators of climat- sea-level relationships call for long-term measurement programmes for ice-volume changes (using satellite altimetry) and changes in temperature and salinity of the oceans (ther­ mal expansion). This manual, however, is primarily concerned with sea­ level changes in the past, mainly since the end of the last glaciation. Its major objective is to help answer the ques­ tion: "how?", which, of course, is little else but to assist in the gathering of fuel for the burning question: "why?" Good fuel, hopefully, for the less smoke and ashes, and the more heat and light produced by that fire, the better scientists are enabled to develop a quantitative under­ standing of past, and hence of future, sea-level changes on different spatial and temporal scales.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Orson Plassche

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sea-level research: a manual for the collection and evaluation of data

  • Book Subtitle: A manual for the collection and evaluation of data

  • Editors: Orson Plassche

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4215-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Orson van de plassche 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8370-6Published: 26 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-4215-8Published: 20 December 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 618

  • Topics: Ecotoxicology, Oceanography, Ecology

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