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Science 26 November 1965:
Vol. 150. no. 3700, pp. 1165 - 1166
DOI: 10.1126/science.150.3700.1165
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Sea-Level Changes during the Last 2000 Years at Point Barrow, Alaska

James D. Hume 1

1 Department of Geology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts

Eustatic rises of sea level between A. D. 265 and 500 and between A. D. 1000 and 1100 caused the formation of raised beaches. After the first rise, sea level dropped about2 meters below the present level, permitting Eskimo settlement of Birnirk about A. D. 500. The second rise of the ocean flooded Birnirk. At present, sea level is about 0.6 to 1.0 meter below the highwater levels; the ocean partially floods Birnirk.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Radiocarbon Dating of Coastal Peat, Barrow, Alaska.
J. Brown, J. Brown, and P. V. Sellmann (1966)
Science 153, 299-300
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