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QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS 卷:97
Post-glacial sea-level change along the Pacific coast of North America
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Shugar, Dan H.1  Walker, Ian J.1  Lian, Olav B.2  Earner, Jordan B. R.1  Neudorf, Christina2,4  McLaren, Duncan3,4  Fedje, Daryl3,4 
[1] Victoria Univ, Dept Geog, Coastal Eros & Dune Dynam Lab, Victoria, BC, Canada
[2] Univ Fraser Valley, Dept Geog, Abbotsford, BC, Canada
[3] Victoria Univ, Dept Anthropol, Victoria, BC, Canada
[4] Hakai Beach Inst, Calvert Island, BC, Canada
关键词: Relative sea level;    Isostasy;    Neotectonics;    Coastal geomorphology;    Cascadia;    Holocene glaciation;   
DOI  :  10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.05.022
来源: Elsevier
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Sea-level history since the Last Glacial Maximum on the Pacific margin of North America is complex and heterogeneous owing to regional differences in crustal deformation (neotectonics), changes in global ocean volumes (eustasy) and the depression and rebound of the Earth's crust in response to ice sheets on land (isostasy). At the Last Glacial Maximum, the Cordilleran Ice Sheet depressed the crust over which it formed and created a raised forebulge along peripheral areas offshore. This, combined with different tectonic settings along the coast, resulted in divergent relative sea-level responses during the Holocene. For example, sea level was up to 200 m higher than present in the lower Fraser Valley region of southwest British Columbia, due largely to isostatic depression. At the same time, sea level was 150 m lower than present in Haida Gwaii, on the northern coast of British Columbia, due to the combined effects of the forebulge raising the land and lower eustatic sea level. A forebulge also developed in parts of southeast Alaska resulting in post-glacial sea levels at least 122 m lower than present and possibly as low as 165 m. On the coasts of Washington and Oregon, as well as south-central Alaska, neotectonics and eustasy seem to have played larger roles than isostatic adjustments in controlling relative sea-level changes. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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