The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene

CN Waters, J Zalasiewicz, C Summerhayes… - Science, 2016 - science.org
BACKGROUND Humans are altering the planet, including long-term global geologic
processes, at an increasing rate. Any formal recognition of an Anthropocene epoch in the …

Map** sea-level change in time, space, and probability

BP Horton, RE Kopp, AJ Garner, CC Hay… - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Future sea-level rise generates hazards for coastal populations, economies, infrastructure,
and ecosystems around the world. The projection of future sea-level rise relies on an …

Temperature-driven global sea-level variability in the Common Era

RE Kopp, AC Kemp, K Bittermann, BP Horton… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - pnas.org
We assess the relationship between temperature and global sea-level (GSL) variability over
the Common Era through a statistical metaanalysis of proxy relative sea-level …

Timing of emergence of modern rates of sea-level rise by 1863

JS Walker, RE Kopp, CM Little, BP Horton - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Sea-level rise is a significant indicator of broader climate changes, and the time of
emergence concept can be used to identify when modern rates of sea-level rise emerged …

Sediment starvation destroys New York City marshes' resistance to sea level rise

DM Peteet, J Nichols, T Kenna, C Chang… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - pnas.org
New York City (NYC) is representative of many vulnerable coastal urban populations,
infrastructures, and economies threatened by global sea level rise. The steady loss of …

Common Era sea-level budgets along the US Atlantic coast

JS Walker, RE Kopp, TA Shaw, N Cahill… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Sea-level budgets account for the contributions of processes driving sea-level change, but
are predominantly focused on global-mean sea level and limited to the 20th and 21st …

Relative sea-level change in Newfoundland, Canada during the past∼ 3000 years

AC Kemp, AJ Wright, RJ Edwards, RL Barnett… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Several processes contributing to coastal relative sea-level (RSL) change in the North
Atlantic Ocean are observed and/or predicted to have distinctive spatial expressions that …

Avoiding timescale bias in assessments of coastal wetland vertical change

JL Breithaupt, JM Smoak, RH Byrne… - Limnology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
There is concern that accelerating sea‐level rise will exceed the vertical growth capacity of
coastal‐wetland substrates in many regions by the end of this century. Vertical vulnerability …

Relative sea-level trends in New York City during the past 1500 years

AC Kemp, TD Hill, CH Vane, N Cahill… - The …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
New York City (NYC) is threatened by 21st-century relative sea-level (RSL) rise because it
will experience a trend that exceeds the global mean and has high concentrations of low …

Reconstructing Common Era relative sea-level change on the Gulf Coast of Florida

MJ Gerlach, SE Engelhart, AC Kemp, RP Moyer… - Marine Geology, 2017 - Elsevier
To address a paucity of Common Era data in the Gulf of Mexico, we reconstructed~ 1.1 m of
relative sea-level (RSL) rise over the past~ 2000 years at Little Manatee River (Gulf Coast of …