Past Ice Sheet Loss Informs Future Sea Level Rise (5 of 7) (IMAGE)

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Past Ice Sheet Loss Informs Future Sea Level Rise (5 of 7)

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Andrea Dutton surveying the position of modern sea level at Anse Source d'Argent, La Digue, Seychelles. Fossil corals at this site record a global mean sea level that was 7.5 m higher than present during a past warm period at 125,000 years ago. Survey staff is 4 m tall. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 10, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Dutton at University of Florida in Gainesville, FL, and colleagues was titled, 'Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods.'

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[Credit: Jody Webster]

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