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During deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum, between about 20,000 to 7,000 years ago (20–7 ka), the sea level rose by a total of about 100 m, at times at
by thombat 6y ago
During deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum, between about 20,000 to 7,000 years ago (20–7 ka), the sea level rose by a total of about 100 m, at times at extremely high rates, due to the rapid melting of the British-Irish Sea, Fennoscandian, Laurentide, Barents-Kara, Patagonian, Innuitian and parts of the Antarctic ice sheets.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Holocene_sea_level_rise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Holocene_sea_level_rise]
Setting the sea surface to -100m on https://www.floodmap.net/ https://www.floodmap.net/ shows a very different world: walking dry-shod from Ireland to Helsinki.
- jakear 6y agoVery cool website. I had no idea so much of the ocean was so deep. I’d like to see a chart of sea level vs sea area.
- positr0n 6y agoThere's an xkcd what if that made me realize how deep/shallow the oceans are in various places. https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/ Bonus - what happens to Mars if you dump all the water there: https://what-if.xkcd.com/54/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/54/