Scientists reconstruct 540 million years of sea level change in detail

By Gaby Clark – Phys.org

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use sediments and fossils to roughly reconstruct how sea levels changed over time steps of a million years or more.

Now, for the first time, scientists from Utrecht, the UK and the US have been able to determine how sea levels must have varied on thousand-year timescales during the last 540 million years. This new research was published on 3 July in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.