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?
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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.