Sea level change

Lauren Sahl, Maine Maritime Academy
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Initial Publication Date: June 20, 2013

Summary

Students calculate sea level change due to melting ice caps, thermal expansion and changes in ridge spreading rates.

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Context

Audience

Used in a Marine Geology course for marine science majors. Physical geology is the prerequisite for the course.

Skills and concepts that students must have mastered

Isostacy, spreading rates, graph reading.

How the activity is situated in the course

This is part of the lessons on sea level change. The exercise is started in class, to help students develop a strategy to solve the problems. It is completed as homework.

Goals

Content/concepts goals for this activity

To extend student understanding of sea level change to geological time scales.
To practice making simplifications so that a problem is solvable.
To practice making and using a sketch to solve problems.
To practice reading graphs.

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Description and Teaching Materials


Sea level change (Microsoft Word 129kB Jun20 13)



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