Lambeck K, Chappell J
Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra 0200, Australia.
Science. 2001 Apr 27;292(5517):679-86. doi: 10.1126/science.1059549.
Sea level change during the Quaternary is primarily a consequence of the cyclic growth and decay of ice sheets, resulting in a complex spatial and temporal pattern. Observations of this variability provide constraints on the timing, rates, and magnitudes of the changes in ice mass during a glacial cycle, as well as more limited information on the distribution of ice between the major ice sheets at any time. Observations of glacially induced sea level changes also provide information on the response of the mantle to surface loading on time scales of 10(3) to 10(5) years. Regional analyses indicate that the earth-response function is depth dependent as well as spatially variable. Comprehensive models of sea level change enable the migration of coastlines to be predicted during glacial cycles, including the anthropologically important period from about 60,000 to 20,000 years ago.
第四纪期间的海平面变化主要是冰盖周期性生长和消融的结果，从而导致了复杂的时空格局。对这种变化性的观测为冰川周期内冰量变化的时间、速率和幅度提供了限制，同时也提供了关于任一时刻主要冰盖之间冰分布的有限信息。对冰川引起的海平面变化的观测还提供了关于地幔在10³到10⁵年时间尺度上对地表负荷响应的信息。区域分析表明，地球响应函数既依赖深度，也随空间变化。海平面变化的综合模型能够预测冰川周期内海岸线的迁移，包括约6万至2万年前对人类具有重要意义的时期。
