The Phanerozoic Record of Global Sea-Level Change
@article{Miller2005ThePR, title={The Phanerozoic Record of Global Sea-Level Change}, author={K. Miller and M. A. Kominz and J. Browning and J. Wright and G. Mountain and M. E. Katz and P. Sugarman and B. Cramer and N. Christie-Blick and S. Pekar}, journal={Science}, year={2005}, volume={310}, pages={1293 - 1298} }
We review Phanerozoic sea-level changes [543 million years ago (Ma) to the present] on various time scales and present a new sea-level record for the past 100 million years (My). Long-term sea level peaked at 100 ± 50 meters during the Cretaceous, implying that ocean-crust production rates were much lower than previously inferred. Sea level mirrors oxygen isotope variations, reflecting ice-volume change on the 104- to 106-year scale, but a link between oxygen isotope and sea level on the 107… CONTINUE READING
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