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Late Quaternary Sea Level Changes: Causes, Patterns and Impacts
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Late Quaternary Sea Level Changes: Causes, Patterns and Impacts

A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Oceanography".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 13450

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Callum R. Firth

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Faculty of Social and Applied Science, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury CT1 1QU, UK
Interests: geomorphology; sea level change; environmental change; environmental hazards

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The Late Quaternary (125,000 yrs. BP to present) is characterised by rapid changes in eustatic sea level superimposed onto isostatic and tectonic processes to produce complex relative sea level changes at a local level. The impact these relative sea level changes have had on the development of coastal systems, geomorphology, regional tectonics, ecosystems, climates and society is complex.

Papers which describe local and regional patterns of relative sea level change and set these within the context of broader issues are encouraged. For example, local/regional data could be used to consider:

  • Sources of meltwater during the last deglacial cycle;
  • Patterns of relative sea level change at a regional level and implications in terms of tectonics and isostatic adjustment;
  • The impact of relative sea level changes on coastal evolution;
  • The impact of relative sea level changes on regional climate/ecological systems;
  • The impact of relative sea level changes on human evolution and society;
  • Recent (last 200 years) sea level changes and their implication for society.

Prof. Dr. Callum R. Firth
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • late Quaternary
  • sea-level change
  • coastal evolution
  • environmental impacts

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20 pages, 8101 KiB  
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On Sea-Level Change in Coastal Areas
by Vincent Courtillot, Jean-Louis Le Mouël, Fernando Lopes and Dominique Gibert
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2022, 10(12), 1871; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10121871 - 2 Dec 2022
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Variations in sea-level, based on tide gauge data (GSLTG) and on combining tide gauges and satellite data (GSLl), are subjected to singular spectrum analysis (SSA) to determine their trends and periodic or quasi-periodic components. GLSTG increases by [...] Read more.
Variations in sea-level, based on tide gauge data (GSLTG) and on combining tide gauges and satellite data (GSLl), are subjected to singular spectrum analysis (SSA) to determine their trends and periodic or quasi-periodic components. GLSTG increases by 90 mm from 1860 to 2020, a contribution of 0.56 mm/yr to the mean rise rate. Annual to multi-decadal periods of ∼90/80, 60, 30, 20, 10/11, and 4/5 years are found in both GSLTG and GSLl. These periods are commensurable periods of the Jovian planets, combinations of the periods of Neptune (165 yr), Uranus (84 yr), Saturn (29 yr) and Jupiter (12 yr). These same periods are encountered in sea-level changes, the motion of the rotation pole RP and evolution of global pressure GP, suggesting physical links. The first SSA components comprise most of the signal variance: 95% for GSLTG, 89% for GSLl, 98% for GP and 75% for RP. Laplace derived the Liouville–Euler equations that govern the rotation and translation of the rotation axis of any celestial body. He emphasized that one must consider the orbital kinetic moments of all planets in addition to gravitational attractions and concluded that the Earth’s rotation axis should undergo motions that carry the combinations of periods of the Sun, Moon and planets. Almost all the periods found in the SSA components of sea-level (GSLl and GSLTG), global pressure (GP) and polar motion (RP), of their modulations and their derivatives can be associated with the Jovian planets. The trends themselves could be segments of components with still longer periodicities (e.g., 175 yr Jose cycle). Full article
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