• DOI:10.1126/science.1151540
Corpus ID: 23334128

Long-Term Sea-Level Fluctuations Driven by Ocean Basin Dynamics

@article{Mller2008LongTermSF,
  title={Long-Term Sea-Level Fluctuations Driven by Ocean Basin Dynamics},
  author={R. M{\"u}ller and M. Sdrolias and C. Gaina and B. Steinberger and C. Heine},
  journal={Science},
  year={2008},
  volume={319},
  pages={1357 - 1362}
}

• R. Müller, M. Sdrolias, +2 authors C. Heine
• Published 2008
• Geology, Medicine
• Science

Earth's long-term sea-level history is characterized by widespread continental flooding in the Cretaceous period (∼145 to 65 million years ago), followed by gradual regression of inland seas. However, published estimates of the Late Cretaceous sea-level high differ by half an order of magnitude, from ∼40 to ∼250 meters above the present level. The low estimate is based on the stratigraphy of the New Jersey margin. By assimilating marine geophysical data into reconstructions of ancient ocean… Expand