16. One of the interpretations of modern climate change is that warming temperatures will cause glacial ice to melt, and in turn this will cause sea levels to rise. Below is a plot of sea level rise during the deglaciation from the last glacial maximum. This was caused by the melting of the ice sheets that covered much of northern North America, Europe. A) What was the rate of sea level rise in cm / yr between 15 and 7 thousand years ago? B) What was the rate of sea level rise between 6 thousand years ago and now? 0 Post-Glacial Sea Level Rise -20 Santa Catarina + --40 Rio de Janiero+ Senegal -60 Meltwater Pulse 1A Malacca Straits upper bound -80 Australia Jamaica -100 Last Glacial Maximum Tahiti Huon Peninsula Barbados -120 lower bound → Sunda/Vietnam Shelf -140 1 L L L 24 22 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 20 Thousands of Years Ago Sea Level Change (m)
16. One of the interpretations of modern climate change is that warming temperatures will cause glacial ice to melt, and in turn this will cause sea levels to rise. Below is a plot of sea level rise during the deglaciation from the last glacial maximum. This was caused by the melting of the ice sheets that covered much of northern North America, Europe. A) What was the rate of sea level rise in cm / yr between 15 and 7 thousand years ago? B) What was the rate of sea level rise between 6 thousand years ago and now? 0 Post-Glacial Sea Level Rise -20 Santa Catarina + --40 Rio de Janiero+ Senegal -60 Meltwater Pulse 1A Malacca Straits upper bound -80 Australia Jamaica -100 Last Glacial Maximum Tahiti Huon Peninsula Barbados -120 lower bound → Sunda/Vietnam Shelf -140 1 L L L 24 22 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 20 Thousands of Years Ago Sea Level Change (m)
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Transcribed Image Text:16. One of the interpretations of modern climate change is
that warming temperatures will cause glacial ice to melt,
and in turn this will cause sea levels to rise. Below is a plot
of sea level rise during the deglaciation from the last glacial
maximum. This was caused by the melting of the ice sheets
that covered much of northern North America, Europe. A)
What was the rate of sea level rise in cm / yr between 15
and 7 thousand years ago? B) What was the rate of sea
level rise between 6 thousand years ago and now?
0
Post-Glacial
Sea Level Rise
-20
Santa Catarina + --40
Rio de Janiero +
Senegal -60
Meltwater Pulse 1A
Malacca Straits
upper bound
-80
Australia
Jamaica
-100
Tahiti
Huon Peninsula →
Barbados
-120
lower bound
Sunda/Vietnam Shelf
-140
↓
1
1
20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0
Thousands of Years Ago
Last Glacial
Maximum
24 22
Sea Level Change (m)
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