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> Firstly sea levels have nothing to do with this at all, these coastal changes were caused by erosion. The paper seems to say these islands were likely formed
by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> Firstly sea levels have nothing to do with this at all, these coastal changes were caused by erosion.
The paper seems to say these islands were likely formed from unconsolidated glacial till, and subsequently eroded by some combination of melting glaciers and the Holocene sea-level rise.
Islands formed when the sea level was low, and eroded when the sea level was high. When you say sea level rise had 'nothing to do with it', you're contradicting the paper.
- simonh 4y agoThe islands have been there since the Holocene sure. The sea level rise was in the Holocene and started the process, but the legends and the historical maps of the islands were made much later than that. The changes since then are due to erosion.