Abstract
AMONG the different kinds of evidence showing that changes in the relative levels of sea and land are going on all over the globe, the forms assumed by coast-lines are now recognised by geologists as being the most convincing and satisfactory. Sea-erosion, acting only along shore-lines, and sub-aerial denudation, operating over the whole landsurfaces, result in features of such clearly differentiated character that no unbiassed observer can fail to recognise their great significance and value. When we find long, narrow, deep, and winding inlets from the sea into the land (“fiords,” etc.), it is obvious that such features could not result from the cutting back of the coast-line by the sea, but that they are old river-channels that have been drowned by the sinking of the land. On the other hand, sea-beaches, with caves, fan-taluses, and other signs of shore work, occurring at various heights above the present sea-level, speak, quite as unmistakably, of elevation having taken place.
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J., J. Changes of Relative Levels of Land and Sea . Nature 95, 189 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095189b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/095189b0