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Sea level rise and Younger Dryas

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Difference between Sea level rise and Younger Dryas

Sea level rise vs. Younger Dryas

A sea level rise is an increase in global mean sea level as a result of an increase in the volume of water in the world’s oceans. The Younger Dryas (c. 12,900 to c. 11,700 years BP) was a return to glacial conditions which temporarily reversed the gradual climatic warming after the Last Glacial Maximum started receding around 20,000 BP.

Similarities between Sea level rise and Younger Dryas

Sea level rise and Younger Dryas have 11 things in common (in Unionpedia): Antarctica, Coral reef, Deglaciation, Florida, Glacier, Greenland, Last Glacial Maximum, Laurentide Ice Sheet, Meltwater pulse 1A, Meltwater pulse 1B, Sea level.

Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent.

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Coral reef

Coral reefs are diverse underwater ecosystems held together by calcium carbonate structures secreted by corals.

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Deglaciation

Deglaciation describes the transition from full glacial conditions during ice ages, to warm interglacials, characterized by global warming and sea level rise due to change in continental ice volume (IPCC AR5).

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.

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Greenland

Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is an autonomous constituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

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Last Glacial Maximum

In the Earth's climate history the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) was the last time period during the last glacial period when ice sheets were at their greatest extension.

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Laurentide Ice Sheet

The Laurentide Ice Sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square kilometers, including most of Canada and a large portion of the northern United States, multiple times during the Quaternary glacial epochs— from 2.588 ± 0.005 million years ago to the present.

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Meltwater pulse 1A

Meltwater pulse 1A (MWP1a) is the name used by Quaternary geologists, paleoclimatologists, and oceanographers for a period of rapid post-glacial sea level rise during which global sea level rose between and in about 400–500 years, giving mean rates of roughly /yr.

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Meltwater pulse 1B

Meltwater pulse 1B (MWP1b) is the name used by Quaternary geologists, paleoclimatologists, and oceanographers for a period of either rapid or just accelerated post-glacial sea level rise that occurred at the beginning of the Holocene and after the end of the Younger Dryas.

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Sea level

Mean sea level (MSL) (often shortened to sea level) is an average level of the surface of one or more of Earth's oceans from which heights such as elevations may be measured.

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Sea level rise and Younger Dryas Comparison

Sea level rise has 151 relations, while Younger Dryas has 178. As they have in common 11, the Jaccard index is 3.34% = 11 / (151 + 178).

References

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