20 Jul Sealevel Changes
Among the coastal communities, with tide rising and falling, changes in sealevel are an every day phenomenon. Moreover, in the minds of settlers in certain parts of the globe like Venice rising trend in sea-level was beyond anybody’s doubt as they lived with the consequences of rising sea-level right before their eyes. Even though among the trained mind, geologists were the first recognize evidences of past sealevel stands especially along the coastal lands and imprinted on the ground or in the landscape, such changes were considered to be events of the geologic past and perhaps no longer in action now until extensive records of tide gauge data were subjected to careful scrutiny
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