Rising Seas: Past, Present, Future

PrefaceAcknowledgments1. The Ever-Changing Ocean2. The Causes and Detection of Sea Level Change3. Piercing the Veil of Time: Sea Levels After the Dinosaurs4. When the Mammoths Roamed: Sea Level During the Ice Ages5. The Great Ice Meltdown and Rising Seas6. The Modern Speedup of Sea Level Rise7. Sea Level Rise on a Warming Planet8. Shorelines at Risk9. Coping with the Rising Waters10. Charting a Future CourseAppendix. Geologic Time ScaleNotesGlossaryBibliographyCreditsIndex