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    Sea levels can change due to isostatic and eustatic processes. Isostatic refers to the adjustment of land heights due to changes in ice sheet mass, while eustatic describes global sea level changes. Coastal landforms provide evidence of sea level changes, with emergent landforms like raised beaches indicating fallen sea levels and submergent landforms like rias and fjords pointing to risen sea levels. Tectonic activity can also impact regional sea levels by causing the land or seafloor to be uplifted or subsided.

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    Sea levels can change due to isostatic and eustatic processes. Isostatic refers to the adjustment of land heights due to changes in ice sheet mass, while eustatic describes global sea level changes. Coastal landforms provide evidence of sea level changes, with emergent landforms like raised beaches indicating fallen sea levels and submergent landforms like rias and fjords pointing to risen sea levels. Tectonic activity can also impact regional sea levels by causing the land or seafloor to be uplifted or subsided.

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    Sea Level Change

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    Sea levels can change due to isostatic and eustatic processes. Isostatic refers to the adjustment of land heights due to changes in ice sheet mass, while eustatic describes global sea level changes. Coastal landforms provide evidence of sea level changes, with emergent landforms like raised beaches indicating fallen sea levels and submergent landforms like rias and fjords pointing to risen sea levels. Tectonic activity can also impact regional sea levels by causing the land or seafloor to be uplifted or subsided.

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    1. Define: isostatic change; eustatic change; post-glacial isostatic 3.

    Explain the causes of longer-term sea level change:


    adjustment
    marine regression

    marine transgression

    2. How do sea levels change on a day-to-day basis?

    4. Emergent coastline landforms: explain how raised beaches and fossil cliffs are 5. Submergent coastline landforms: explain how rias, fjords, barrier islands and Dalmatian
    formed (give example) coasts are formed (give examples)
    Rias Fjords

    6. What effect does past and present tectonic activity have on sea level change?
    Barrier islands Dalmatian coasts

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