This exercise has students create a global sea level model by plotting boundary conditions such as ice buildup rate and insolation into a spreadsheet and calculating ice melt rate, eventually including a term for isostatic rebound. Studying changes in insolation and sea level over the past several hundred thousands of years will enable them to explain the ice age cycles of the Quaternary.
ISSN 1089-9995
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