Re:Why Is Sea Level Rise Worse in Some Places?
by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @12:11PM
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In Scandinavia, isn't it glacial rebound rather than tectonic?
Re:Why Is Sea Level Rise Worse in Some Places?
by bell-cot on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @01:14PM
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> 3. (geology) Of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's (or a similar planet's) lithosphere
Re:Why Is Sea Level Rise Worse in Some Places?
by LeifCarrotson on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @02:00PM
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I expect the parent is referring to human-caused melting of glaciers as the root cause of that tectonic movement, rather than the expected natural motion of the tectonic plates.
Re:Why Is Sea Level Rise Worse in Some Places?
by Scarblac on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @02:10PM
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It's the glaciers melting at the end of the last Ice Age that Scandinavia is still rising from.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Period#Weichselia...
> As a result of melting ice, the land has continued to rise yearly in Scandinavia, mostly in northern Sweden and Finland, where the land is rising at a rate of as much as 8–9 mm per year, or 1 m in 100 years. This is important for archaeologists, since a site that was coastal in the Nordic Stone Age now is inland and can be dated by its relative distance from the present shore.
Because the sensors are mounted on that very land.
So tectonic movement will certainly have an effect. And you can see remnants of earthquakes in some of the data.