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Sea Level Studies at UTIG

Sea-level Fluctuations

Several UTIG studies are dedicated to extracting the global sea-level signal locked in the sedimentary record of the continental shelf and slope in key regions of the world. Understanding global sea level is important to the world's future, as any sea-level rise that may occur in the 21st century could affect hundreds of millions of people, including inhabitants of the Gulf Coast of Texas.

ODP Leg 174A
The success of ODP Leg 174A rested on the application of new logging-while-drilling (LWD) technology developed by industry in the mid-1990s to measure in situ properties in boreholes. Unstable sand sequences at hampered coring and thus rendered conventional logging unfeasible. At two sites, LWD enabled the documentation of shallow sequence boundaries, thought to result from rapid sea-level fluctuations.
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