Sentence examples for lower sea level from inspiring English sources

The Great Blue Hole, Belize, is a karst-eroded sinkhole, the result of the repeated collapses of a cave system formed during lower sea level stands.

Researchers could pick submerged sediments that may include tree roots, suggesting a previously lower sea level, or mollusks, which can be measured against the fossil record to determine the previous sea level.

This gets wonky, but the bottom line result is that "sea surface slope perpendicular to any current flow, like the Gulf Stream, has a higher sea level on its right hand side, and the lower sea level on the left hand slide," says Rahmstorf.

Likewise islands that formerly existed, perhaps at times of lower sea level in the past, are not included.

The lower sea level during the hindcast period compared to recent times must be accounted for in the simulations.

In glacial periods, the routes of the currents might regress seaward with reduced current intensity because of lower sea level.

Counterintuitively, global warming would actually lower sea levels at first.

The lower sea levels exposed an enormous land bridge across the Bering Sea, known as Beringia.

Some primates apparently continued through Greenland and Scotland, connecting links to Europe at a time of lower sea levels.

Governments can't restore ice sheets, lower sea levels, or reanimate extinct species, but they can adjust climate policies if they turn out to be too aggressive.

With the rise in sea level that followed the melting of the Pleistocene glaciers, the steep-sided canyons that had been eroded into the Pliocene surface during the period of lower sea levels were gradually flooded.