Ancient sea levels give clues to natural sea rise
FollowScientists have produced the first detailed record of sea levels over the past 500,000 years and spanning five ice ages, using microfossils from sediments in the Red Sea.
The team determined accurate dates for the sea levels by linking wind-blown dust in the sediments to a climate record from stalagmites from caves in China. The research is published in the latest edition of Nature Communications.
The more precise dating method gives scientists new insights into natural rates of sea level rise.
“When large ice sheets melted at the end of ice ages, sea levels rose dramatically, up to 5.5 metres per century,