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Sea Level Rise on the Atlantic Coast
February 24, 2011 | United States Geological Survey

National Assessment of Shoreline Change: Historical Shoreline Change along the New England and Mid-Atlantic Coasts is a new open file report (2010-1118) by the United States Geological Survey. It contains an interesting set of graphs illustrating sea level change, based upon tidal gauges, for several locations on the Atlantic Ocean coast (shown below) The variable rates of sea level rise are attributed to a combination of “residual post-glacial isostatic rebound, hydrostatic loading, differential increases in tidal range, and neotectonics.”


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