Sea Levels Rose 200 Feet in Past–It May Happen Again
A massive and unusually abrupt rise in the sea level that occurred about 14,200 years ago was caused by the partial collapse of ice sheets in Antarctica, a new study has shown. In less than 500 years at the end of the last Ice Age, this event caused the Earth’s sea level to rise about 70 feet. That?s about four times faster than sea levels were rising most of the time during this period, and at least 20 times faster than the sea level is currently rising.
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