The level of the oceans has risen and fallen many times in the geological past.
Keywords: transgression; regression; eustasy; sequence stratigraphy; greenhouse climate
Sea Level Change
Donald R Prothero, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, USA
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0001633
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Figure 1. Eustatic curve for the past 600 million years (modified from Hallam, 1992).
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| Further Reading | |
| Burton R, Kendall CGSC and Lerche I (1987) Out of our depth: on the impossibility of fathoming eustasy from the stratigraphic record. Earth-Science Reviews 24: 237–277. | |
| book Dott RH Jr (ed.) (1992) Eustasy. Geological Society of America Memoir 180. | |
| book Hallam A (1992) Phanerozoic Sea-Level Changes. New York: Columbia University Press. | |
| Kendall CGSC, Moore P, Whittle G and Cannon R (1992) A challenge: is it possible to determine eustasy, and does it matter? Geological Society of America Memoir 180: 93–107. | |
| book Revelle R (ed.) (1990) Sea Level Change. Washington DC: National Academy Press. | |
| Watts AB (1982) Tectonic subsidence, flexure, and global changes in sea level. Nature 297: 469–474. | |
| book Wilgus CK, Hasting BS, Kendall CGSC et al. (eds) (1998) Sea Level Change: An Integrated Approach. SEPM Special Publication 42. | |
