Geography A-Level
Sea-level rise
What Sea-level rise means in Geography A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Sea-level rise
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Reference: AQA
A global eustatic rise of approximately 3.4 mm per year, driven primarily by thermal expansion of oceans and the melting of terrestrial ice sheets.
Topics that use Sea-level rise
- Coastal landscape development (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Climate change
- Coastal deposition
- Coastlines of emergence
- Environmental vulnerability
- Eustatic change
- Geological structure and lithology
- Geomorphological processes
- Isostatic change
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