Mediterranean future sea level Maximum (MedMax)
Compilation of the post glacial RSL changes along the western mediterranean basin.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2014-01-01T00:00:00
- Status
- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Theme
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Sea level
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 INSPIRE themes
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Geology
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- Access constraints
- Restricted
- Use constraints
- otherRestictions
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Language
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eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Begin date
- 12000 BP
- End date
- modern
- Reference system identifier
- WGS 1984
- OnLine resource
- MedMax ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related )
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
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Global sea-level rise is the result of an increase in the ocean volume, which evolves from changes in ocean mass due to melting of continental glaciers and ice sheets, and expansion of ocean water as it warms. The elevation of ocean surface relatively to the ocean floor is defined as a 'relative sea level' (RSL), and any shift on height of either of these two surfaces produces a RSL change. RSL varies due to a variety of processes, acting at different time scales. In the long term these factors are eustatic, deformation of the solid earth and tectonic. Our understanding of current rates of sea-level rise from tide gauge and satellite data, and of the ongoing mass loss from the major ice sheets requires correction for glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) effects that are both calibrated to, and independently tested by, observations of former sea levels.
This project aims to create a database of Holocene (last 10 ka) geological data across the Mediterranean basin. This represents a tool of fundamental importance for understanding and tuning GIA models and to assess sea level rise hazards, which are particularly magnified in low-lying or subsiding coastal areas. In the Mediterranean, different kinds of RSL markers have been used to reconstruct RSLs: biological, sedimentological, geomorphological and archaeological. The production of such great amount of literature, which is still rapidly growing in number, has led to the obvious consequence of fragmented information, only occasionally reviewed in some localities, but never collected into an organic database to be analysed at the scale of the Mediterranean basin.
- File identifier
- d9f865b7-2fd8-4644-803b-d75d81a88fb4 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2020-10-20T15:26:23
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0