ScienceDaily: The cause of rapid sea level rise in the past has been found by scientists at the University of Bristol using climate and ice sheet models. The process, named ‘saddle-collapse’, was found to be the cause of two rapid sea level rise events: the Meltwater pulse 1a (MWP1a) around 14,600 years ago and the ‘8,200 year’ event.
The research is published July 11 in Nature.
Using a climate model, Dr Lauren Gregoire of Bristol’s School of Geographical Sciences and colleagues unearthed the series of events…

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