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Sea level for the last 1,000,000 years Rohling, EJ, GL Foster, KM Grant, G Marino, AP Roberts, ME Tamisiea, and F Williams. “Sea-Level and Deep-Sea-Temperature.

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1 Sea level for the last 1,000,000 years Rohling, EJ, GL Foster, KM Grant, G Marino, AP Roberts, ME Tamisiea, and F Williams. “Sea-Level and Deep-Sea-Temperature Variability over the Past 5.3 Million Years.” Nature, 2014. 1

2 2 Post-Glacial Maximum Sea Level Donoghue, Joseph F. “Sea Level History of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Coast and Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the near Future.” Climatic Change 107, no. 1–2 (2011): 17–33.

3 Pleistocene Terrace Higher Uplands Exposed Shelf Shelf-edge Delta Exposed Continental Shelf During the last Ice Age FISK, 1944 Pleistocene erosional surface Shoreline BLUM & ROBERTS, 2011 3

4 Pleistocene Terrace Higher Uplands Rising Sea Level as Ice Cap Melted FISK, 1944 Braided stream aggradation Holocene delta deposits BLUM & ROBERTS, 2011 4

5 IPCC Sea Level Projections 5

6 2100 – Minimum Sea Level Rise + Subsidence (subsidence + sea level rise = 1 meter) 6

7 WHAT WILL 2 METERS LOOK LIKE? 7


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