After the last ice age, sea levels rose rapidly over a period of about 8,000 years, new research reveals. Samples drilled from deep beneath the sea …
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Planet Earth: Global sea levels rose a whopping 125 feet after the last ice age
Melting ice caps in North America, Antarctica and Europe caused sea levels to rise quickly as temperatures warmed after the last ice age. But researchers have lacked robust geological data from this period, so how much sea levels climbed was unknown. Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according to a study published March 19 in the journal Nature.
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