本課程介紹海水面變化的各種因子，以及調查研究海水面變化的各種方法與手段，藉此了解未來海岸環境變遷的可能趨勢。
1.Processes: Many processes can cause a change in
relative sea level change at any particular location:
2.Sea Level and the Geoid: Eustasy
3.Land Elevation Changes
4.Effects of Atmospheric Pressure, Winds, and Ocean
Currents high-frequency noise:
5.Changes in the Mass of Ocean Water
6.Eustatic Effects of Changes in Liquid Water on Land
7.Changes in the Volume of Water Without Changes in Mass
8.Volume of Ocean Basins
9.Outlines*. Seismic Stratigaphic Record of Sea-level
Change*. Quaternary Sea-level Change*. Late Quaternary
and Holocene Sea-level Change*. Recent and Near-future
Global Sea-level Change*. Glacial Isostatic Adjustment
and Relative Sea-level Change

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