Sea levels: abrupt events and mechanisms of change
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Sea Levels: Abrupt events and mechanisms of change
International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) Project 495 'Quaternary Land-Ocean Interactions: Driving Mechanisms and Coastal Responses' commenced in 2004, three decades after the first project specifically concerned with sea levels began (Project 61: 1974-82). Over thirty years of co-ordinated international research have produced a detailed picture of the spatial variability inherent in sea level ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0309-1333,1477-0296
DOI: 10.1191/0309133305pp465pr