Saturday, December 01, 2012

"In one spot, Sweden’s coastline has risen about 300 meters since the Ice Age ended about 10,000 years ago"

New Nordic land rises from sea as climate change creeps in
A Stone Age camp that used to be by the shore is now 200 km (125 miles) from the Baltic Sea. Sheep graze on what was the seabed in the 15th century. And Sweden’s port of Lulea risks getting too shallow for ships.
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The uplift of almost a centimeter (0.4 inch) a year, one of the highest rates in the world, is part of a continuing geological rebound since the end of the Ice Age removed a vast ice sheet from regions around the Arctic Circle.

...In one spot, Sweden’s coastline has risen about 300 meters since the Ice Age ended about 10,000 years ago.

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