Sea Level and Climate

Type Book section
Date 2017-06
Language English
Author(s) Harff Jan1, Flemming Nicholas C2, Groh Andreas3, Hunicke Birgit4, Lericolais GillesORCID5, Meschede Martin6, Rosentau Alar7, Sakellariou Dimitris8, Uscinowicz Szymon9, Zhang Wenyan10, Zorita Eduardo4
Affiliation(s) 1 : University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland
2 : National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
3 : Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, c/o DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Wessling, Germany
4 : Helmholtz Centre Geesthacht, Geesthacht, Germany
5 : IFREMER, DAEI, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
6 : University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
7 : University of Tartu, Department of Geology, Tartu, Estonia
8 : Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Anavyssos, Greece
9 : Polish Geological Institute — National Research Institute, Branch of Marine Geology, Gdańsk, Poland
10 : MARUM — Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Book Submerged Landscapes of the European Continental Shelf: Quaternary Paleoenvironments. 2017. Nicholas C. Flemming (Editor), Jan Harff (Editor), Delminda Moura (Editor), Anthony Burgess (Editor), Geoffrey N. Bailey (Editor). ISBN: 978-1-118-92213-2. Chap.2 pp.11-49
DOI 10.1002/9781118927823.ch2
Keyword(s) Baltic Sea, climate change, coastal formation, environmental changes, European continental shelf, eustatic change, Late Pleistocene, Middle Holocene, sea level
Abstract

This chapter gives an overview of the environmental changes to the European shelf and its marginal seas during the Late Pleistocene to the Middle Holocene. It first explains the regional tectonics of Europe. The age of the consolidation of the basement together with the plate tectonic setting serves as the main parameters determining coastal formation. Next, the chapter reviews the fluctuation of glacial and interglacial stadia as an effect of orbital parameters of the Earth around the Sun. In addition, it examines eustatic change during the Last Glacial Cycle (LGC). The chapter also describes the development of the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the Atlantic shelf, based on numerical sea-level scenarios constrained by observational data. Finally, it explains the basics of the ECHO-G global climate model, together with an overview of Late Holocene changes in European climate with special attention to wind forces.

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Harff Jan, Flemming Nicholas C, Groh Andreas, Hunicke Birgit, Lericolais Gilles, Meschede Martin, Rosentau Alar, Sakellariou Dimitris, Uscinowicz Szymon, Zhang Wenyan, Zorita Eduardo (2017). Sea Level and Climate. In Submerged Landscapes of the European Continental Shelf: Quaternary Paleoenvironments. 2017. Nicholas C. Flemming (Editor), Jan Harff (Editor), Delminda Moura (Editor), Anthony Burgess (Editor), Geoffrey N. Bailey (Editor). ISBN: 978-1-118-92213-2. Chap.2 pp.11-49 (Wiley). https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00391/50263/