Sea-level Changes
Published on 17. September 1987
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-631-15402-0 (ISBN)
Description
The purpose of this specially commissioned volume of papers is threefold: to collect, analyze, interpret and correlate new and existing sea-level data; to survey and to analyze data from the world's coasts and continental shelves to provide information on resource exploitation, coastal land-use planning, land subsidence, reclamation, acquaculture and ecology; to analyze tide-gauge records and to model other short-term sea-level fluctuations such as palaeotides, storm surges and tsunamis, using computer simulation techniques controlled by reliable sea-level data. This book represents the culmination of more than ten years' research under the auspices of the International Geological Correlation Programme and appropriately contains contributions from geographers, oceanographers and geologists from all over the world, including Japan, United States, Australia, Scandinavia and France. This book reports and reflects on the most recent advances in the study of sea-level changes in the past, present and future and should be of interest to environmental scientists, to coastal geomorphologists and to planners and policy-makers in marine and coastal resource management.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
tables, figures
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 170 mm
Weight
861 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-15402-0 (9780631154020)
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Content
1. Sea-level studies: Michael J.Tooley (Department of Geography, University of Durham) ; 2. The Holocene sedimentary history of the coastal lagoons of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil: Stephen Ireland (Department of Geography, University of Durham) ; 3. Relative sea-level changes in the Beauly Firth area, Scotland: B.Andrew Haggart (Geography Section, City of London Polytechnic) ; 4. Holocene sea-level changes in the North Sea region: Ian Shennan (Department of Geography, University of Durham) ; 5. Sea-level changes in the Mediterranean: Paolo A.Pirazzoli (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris) ; 6. Quaternary sea-level changes in Japan: Yota Ota (Department of Geography, Yokohama National University, Japan) and Hiroshi Machida (Department of Geography, Tokyo Metropolitan University Japan) ; 7. Quaternary sea-level studies in the Eastern United States of America: a methodological perspective: Thomas M. Cronin (United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, Virginia) ; 8. Quaternary sea-level changes on the Atlantic coast of Africa: Pierre Giresse (Centre de Recherches de Sedimentologie Marine, Universite de Perpignan, France) ; 9. Sea-level changes on the east coast of Africa during the Holocene and Late Pleistocene: Lars-Erik Ase (Department of Physical Geography, University of Stockholm) ; 10. Late Quaternary sea-level changes in the Australian region: John Chappell (Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University) ; 11. Models of global sea-level changes: Nils-Axel Morner (Gronby Independent Research Center, Sweden) ; 12. Sea-level changes resulting from future retreat of ice sheets: an effect of CO2 warming the climate: James A.Clarke (Department of Geology, Calvin College, Michigan) and John A.Primus (Department of Geology, Calvin College, Michigan) ; 13. Sea-level changes : a conspectus: Michael J.Tooley (Department of Geography, University of Durham) and Ian Shennan (Department of Geography, University of Durham).