Last interglacial sea-level proxies in the glaciated Northern Hemisphere
Monday, 13 June, 2022
Published by Dalton AS, Gowan EJ, Mangerud J, Möller P, Lunkka JP and Astakhov V on 4 April 2022.
The location of many major cities in coastal regions means rising sea levels represent a particularly important threat to humanity. During the last interglacial (LIG) between 130,000-115,000 years ago, the Greenland ice sheet was much smaller and sea levels were much higher than present, representing an approximate analogue for our future world.
This dataset and accompanying paper by Dalton et al. presents a compilation of LIG sea level records in the area around Greenland that provides regional information on both a rising sea and rising land associated with terrestrial deglaciation during the LIG.