Sea Level Rise

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What is causing the sea to rise?

Ice sheets, thermal expansion, and mountain glaciers. Also, sediment starvation and subsidence from oil drilling. Slope angle.

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The Marine Ice Sheet Instability Hypothesis

Warm waters contact glaciers from below; where sea levels are low, this may be a runaway process

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Why could the sea level be lowering in some places?

Land surface is still rebounding from last glacial maximum (ex. Norway)

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Near Field v Far Field Effects

Ice sheets have a lot of mass and as such gravitationally pull water to them. When they melt they have less gravity and the sea level falls.

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