At 11:20 AM 3/23/2004 -0600, you wrote:
PaleoFolks,
Which global sea-level curve is now considered
to be standard? A web search yields a welter of information that seems to
cluster around brief and local modifications to the sea-level curve of
Haq (1987), but it's hard to believe that anything could last so long
without being superseded. After all, in 1987, I lived in another city
working at another job before I was superseded. But maybe the Haq curve
is more lasting.
Andrew K. Rindsberg
Geological Survey of
Alabama
Based on what I looked at recently, there doesn't seem to be a standard
curve. Tom Algeo has a paper on the Paleozoic curve -
Algeo, T. J., and K. B. Seslavinsky.
1995. The Paleozoic World - Continental Flooding, Hypsometry, and
Sealevel. American Journal of Science 295(7):787-822.
Roy E. Plotnick
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