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- Kenneth G. Miller
- Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
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- Michelle A. Kominz
- Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
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- James V. Browning
- Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
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- James D. Wright
- Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
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- Gregory S. Mountain
- Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
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- Miriam E. Katz
- Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
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- Peter J. Sugarman
- Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
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- Benjamin S. Cramer
- Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
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- Nicholas Christie-Blick
- Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
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- Stephen F. Pekar
- Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
書誌事項
- 公開日
- 2005-11-25
- DOI
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- 10.1126/science.1116412
- 公開者
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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<jats:p> We review Phanerozoic sea-level changes [543 million years ago (Ma) to the present] on various time scales and present a new sea-level record for the past 100 million years (My). Long-term sea level peaked at 100 ± 50 meters during the Cretaceous, implying that ocean-crust production rates were much lower than previously inferred. Sea level mirrors oxygen isotope variations, reflecting ice-volume change on the 10 <jats:sup>4</jats:sup> - to 10 <jats:sup>6</jats:sup> -year scale, but a link between oxygen isotope and sea level on the 10 <jats:sup>7</jats:sup> -year scale must be due to temperature changes that we attribute to tectonically controlled carbon dioxide variations. Sea-level change has influenced phytoplankton evolution, ocean chemistry, and the loci of carbonate, organic carbon, and siliciclastic sediment burial. Over the past 100 My, sea-level changes reflect global climate evolution from a time of ephemeral Antarctic ice sheets (100 to 33 Ma), through a time of large ice sheets primarily in Antarctica (33 to 2.5 Ma), to a world with large Antarctic and large, variable Northern Hemisphere ice sheets (2.5 Ma to the present). </jats:p>
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Science 310 (5752), 1293-1298, 2005-11-25
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