Global sea-level rise in the early Holocene revealed from North Sea peats.

ABSTRACT: Rates of relative sea-level rise during the final stage of the last deglaciation, the early Holocene, are key to understanding future ice melt and sea-level change under a warming climate¹. Data about these rates are scarce², and this limits insight into the relative contributions of the North American and Antarctic ice sheets to global sea-level rise during the early Holocene. Here we present an early Holocene sea-level curve based on 88 sea-level data points (13.7-6.2 thousand years ago (ka)) from the North Sea (Doggerland^3,4). After removing the pattern of regional glacial isostatic adjustment caused by the melting of the Eurasian Ice Sheet, the residual sea-level signal highlights two phases of accelerated sea-level rise. Meltwater sourced from the Nort

SUBMITTER: Hijma MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11922766 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature