>600,000 years. Collectively, the data suggest long-term average Quaternary 

 uplift rates of 0.2-0.3 m/lOOO years. (Author). 



232 MUNK, W. , and REVELLE, R. 1952. "Sea-Level and the Rotation of the 

 Earth," American Journal of Science . Vol 250, pp 829-833. 



From ancient beach lines, Daly has proposed a eustatic lowering of sea- 

 level by about five ms during the last few thousand years. This would 

 decrease the length of day by 30 milliseconds if the lowering is due to 

 "rapid" growth of ice caps, and by 90 milliseconds if, as suggested by Daly, 

 the lowering is due to isostatic afterflow in the earth's mantle following a 

 rapid melting of ice caps. The corresponding value derived from ancient 

 observations of eclipses, 27+18 milliseconds, indicates rapid growth of ice 

 caps. For the last hundred years, tide gage records and the retreat of 

 glaciers indicate a rise in sea-level by 10 cm. This rise would displace the 

 north pole of rotation by something like 10 ft towards the North Atlantic, the 

 precise value and the direction depending on the source of melted water. Such 

 a displacement is not inconsistent with astronomic evidence. (Authors). 



233 MUTO, T. 1987. "Coastal Fan Processes Controlled by Sea-Level Changes: 

 A Quaternary Example From the Tenryugawa Fan System, Pacific Coast of Central 

 Japan," Journal of GeoloRV . Vol 95, pp 716-724. 



A new hypothesis for dynamic processes in coastal fans is presented, 

 based on the concepts of temporal changes if fan morphology and associated 

 sediment bodies in phased and cyclic mode. These changes which are marked by 

 overflows from a "fan valley" before its complete burial as well as after the 

 initiation of its entrenchment, are entirely related to relative sea- level 

 changes. The hypothesis is exemplified by the Middle Pleistocene to Holocene 

 Tenryugawa fan system, Pacific coast of central Japan. (Author) . 



234 MYSAK, L. A. 1967. "On the Very Low Frequency Spectrum of the Sea- 

 Level on a Continental Shelf," Journal of Geophysical Research . Vol 72, 

 No. 12, pp 3043-3047. 



The very low frequency and wave number response of the continental shelf 

 adjusted sea- level to a general atmospheric pressure forcing function is ob- 

 tained. Using this result, an expression for the very low frequency spectrum 

 of the adjusted sea-level is also derived. It is shown that in the region of 



the atmospheric pressure spectrum maximum, there is good agreement between the 

 theoretical and observed adjusted sea-level spectrums at Sydney, Australia. 

 (Author) . 



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